I pray constantly for the Lord to help my family and friends and people that I know need His help. Even as I pray I realize that they have needs that I don’t know so I pray that He will help them in all the ways that they need Him to help.
I admit that I rarely pray a formal prayer. My prayers are usually either prayers for help or prayers of gratitude. That’s why I’d like to say this prayer and share it with you. It is everything that, in my heart, I’d like to pray.
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.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
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.
Amen.
