A Prayer for the New Year

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;


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 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.

~St. Francis