Prayer of St Francis

Lord make me an instrument of Thy peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is sadness, joy. O Divine master, grant that I may not seek so much to be consoled, as to console; not to be understood but to understand; not to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, in pardoning that we are pardoned, and in dying we are born into eternal life. Amen