The Prayer of St. Francis

My oldest granddaughter gave me a bookmark as a gift on Christmas morning and it touched my heart as a prayer to be prayed and lived out as a Normal Christian.

The Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that we 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.
Amen.

This simple prayer is attributed to St. Francis of Assissi.