The following is a prayer by Saint Francis of Assisi, which I think is beautiful and inspirational. Personally, it inspires me to be a better person, to help people heal every day in my work, and be at peace with the spiritual lessons I am learning here on Earth...


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 there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
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;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

     --Saint Francis of Assisi