Saint Francis of Assisi

I've been reading a biography about the life of Mother Theresa. WOW - what an inspiring life she lived - and she loved with all she had!

This is a prayer that she said every day:

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord make me an instrument of your 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 bring 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,
That 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 be loved,
For it is by forgetting self that one finds
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.