A Prayer of Peace and How to Achive It

In this time of fear and trouble, especially in the remembrance of 9/11 tomorrow, there is a prayer from centuries ago that still speaks to the heart today. The solution to outside trouble always is from within us. I'm posting this for our use for now, and whenever there is trouble.

A Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

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;
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.