The Prayer of Saint Francis asks God to make the speaker an instrument of peace who can sow love where there is hatred, bring pardon where there is injury, and bring faith where there is doubt. It also asks God to replace despair with hope, darkness with light, and sadness with joy. The speaker asks not to seek consolation but to console, not to seek understanding but to understand, and not to seek love but to love. It concludes that it is in giving that we receive, in pardoning that we are pardoned, and in dying that we are born to eternal life.
The Prayer of Saint Francis asks God to make the speaker an instrument of peace who can sow love where there is hatred, bring pardon where there is injury, and bring faith where there is doubt. It also asks God to replace despair with hope, darkness with light, and sadness with joy. The speaker asks not to seek consolation but to console, not to seek understanding but to understand, and not to seek love but to love. It concludes that it is in giving that we receive, in pardoning that we are pardoned, and in dying that we are born to eternal life.
The Prayer of Saint Francis asks God to make the speaker an instrument of peace who can sow love where there is hatred, bring pardon where there is injury, and bring faith where there is doubt. It also asks God to replace despair with hope, darkness with light, and sadness with joy. The speaker asks not to seek consolation but to console, not to seek understanding but to understand, and not to seek love but to love. It concludes that it is in giving that we receive, in pardoning that we are pardoned, and in dying that we are born to eternal life.