What do you think of this prayer of St Francis?

Question

Lord,
Make me an instrument of thy peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love ,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith:
Where ther 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 and to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

St Francis of Assisi

Answer 1

That's my favorite prayer and my favorite saint. It is a prayer for letting go of personal gratification and justification in order to be an instrument through which God can express love for others. It's so inspiring.

Answer 2

Beautiful. I've always loved the Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi.

Answer 3

I think it is a beautiful prayer. With so much selfishness in the world today, this prayer is a good way to ask God to help us avoid giving into that selfishness. Compassion and care for others is becoming rare these days.

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 4

I love this prayer, I used it at a special occasion. There is also music for this prayer. If more people practiced it in life, we would have a much better world.

Answer 5

It is of great wisdom,And it speaks the Godly truth, and it all, is as simple as that, for the world to understand that if we all would live up to this we would have world Peace, and Love and compassion, and a Joy so Davine, is what we would have if the worlds morals, where like this, God bless you, and Israel and All..That was a blessing to me...

Answer 6

There is nothing in the prayer one can't do on one's own.

But great sentiment. Go for it.

Answer 7

It's a great prayer.

Answer 8

I really like it but I guess a lot of people don't It doesn't say anything about going to hell that's good.