The Prayer of St. Francis


Lord, make me a instrument of thy 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.
Francis of Assisi, Italy, 13th century.


John 3:16-17

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him will not perish
but have eternal life. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.
(New Living Translation)