Prayer for Peace

 Lord, make me a channel of your peace,

 

    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.