- Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;
- Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
- Where there is injury, pardon;
- Where there is error, truth;
- Where there is doubt, faith;
- Where there is despair, hope;
- Where there is darkness, light;
- And where there is sadness, joy.
- O Divine Master, 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.
- How beautiful the words of someone that was perhaps deeply troubled by the brokenness of the world but passionately calling for the beauty of the kingdom.
- God, my sovereign Creator, the One to which I owe more than I can muster, the One I seek to glorify in my every action, instill in us a fire to lead lives of peace and love, forgiveness and compassion, faith and hope, truth and wisdom. Let us be a people after Your heart, living as though we are citizens of a Kingdom not of this earth.
