Saint Francis Prayer "Lord, make me a channel of thy 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 being 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 there 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."