The Peace Prayer, often attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
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.
Rev. Susan Pendleton Jones
Senior Fellow of Christ-Centered Visioning & First Lady of 国产小福利
鈥淭his prayer is beautiful in its simplicity, but it is daring in its challenge to all of us. When you read it carefully and closely it makes you pause 鈥 you realize it鈥檚 not our natural inclination to live like he鈥檚 praying. It turns things upside-down. The world we live in most days is not like this 鈥 it鈥檚 far too often 鈥榙og eat dog鈥, 鈥榯it for tat鈥, an 鈥榚ye for an eye鈥, we want to get even. But that鈥檚 not at all what the prayer is saying. We鈥檙e praying the way Jesus lived and taught.鈥