That where there is hatred, I may bring love:
Where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness:
Where there is discord, I may bring harmony:
Where there is error, I may bring truth:
Where there is doubt, I may bring faith:
Where there is despair, I may bring hope:
Where there are shadows, I may bring light:
Where there is sadness, I may bring joy:
Lord, grant I may seek rather
To comfort than to be comforted;
To understand than to be understood;
To love than to be loved;
For it is by forgetting self
That one finds,
It is by forgiving
That one is forgiven,
It is by dying
That one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.
- "Prayer for Peace" by Mother Teresa and The Sisters of Charity
adapted from the Prayer of St. Francis
one of my favorite prayers
