The Prayer of St Francis

The Prayer of St Francis

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This is one of my favorite prayers in Recovery. It shapes all areas of my life today.

There seem to be a few different version of the Prayer of St. Francis. This one below is the one that I have heard a few times and I really like it. These words came from this source https://www.tidewaterintergroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/The_St_Francis_Prayer.pdf.

Lord, make me a channel of thy 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 to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Amen.