“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace, that where there is hatred I may sow love, that where there is wrong, the spirit of forgiveness, That way there is discord, harmony, that where there is error, truth, that where there is doubt, faith, that where there is despair, hope, that where there are shadows, light, that where there is sadness, joy.
“Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort them to be comforted, to understand then to be understood, to love than to be loved.
“For it is by self-forgetting that we find. It is by forgiving, that we are forgiven. It is by dying, that we are born to eternal life.”
This prayer, originally The Saint Francis Prayer, (after Saint Francis of Assisi), is also known as The Eleventh Step Prayer Bill W. (the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous) used it to explain a practical approach to prayer and meditation in the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.*
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