An Instrument of Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace

Where there is hatred, let me show love
Where 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 might 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.