Here is a lovely prayer i remember from my school , Holy Cross in Mongu, Zambia:
Make me a Channel of your peace
where there is hatred let me bring your love,
Where there is injury your pardon lord,
and where ther's doubt , true faith in you.
Oh, master grant that i may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand
To be loved, as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is despair in Life, let me bring hope
Where there is darkness only Light,
and where there is sadness, ever joy.
Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
In giving to all men that we receive;
And in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hate, let me sow love,
Where there is injury let me sow
a pardon deep as the flowing sea.
Where there is doubt let me sow faith
Where there is despair, let me sow hope,
Where there is darkness let me sow light
Where there is sadness let me sow joy.
O Loving Lord, may i not seek
to be understood as to understand;
to be consoled as to console,
or to be loved, but to love men.
For it is in GIVING that we RECEIVE
It is in forgiving that we are forgiven
and it is in dying that we are born
to eternal life, to eternal life.
--Saint Francis of Asisi
