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the right sentiment

With a few simple edits, this prayer makes a lot of sense.

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 (clarity);
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.

Comments

By: someone you "loved" on September 15, 2006 at 7:15 p.m.

...but not sense enough to live by it.

By: sj on September 10, 2006 at 2:36 p.m.

word.

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