a prayer for today.

{via my pinterest}

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. 

Where there is hatred, let me sow love; 

where there is injury,pardon; 

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.

-Prayer of St. Francis