The Prayer of St. Francis

So my english teacher prayed this prayer at the beginning of class every day last semester, and ever since it has stuck with me. I love it very much, and I just wanted to share it with you all. If you read it, please actually take the time to open yourself to the Lord, and ask that He will make these words your heart's true cry. I don't often ask you guys to do something like this, but I just really feel like it wouldn't be a bad idea. And if you decide to simply ignore this, that is of course fine too. :)

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;

that where there is hatred, I may bring love;

that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;

that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;

that where there is error, I may bring truth;

that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;

that where there is despair, I may bring hope;

that where there are shadows, I may bring light;

that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that 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 self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.

Amen.