Lord, make me an Instrument of Your Peace

The Peace Prayer of St. Francis apparently dates from the early part of this century, and was found in Normandy in 1915, written on the back of a holy card of St. Francis, from which the name comes. It takes a true and tested Christian, to write something like this:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
when there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen