Step 11 Prayer

This version of the prayer of St Francis of Assissi is taken from Step 11 (Chapter 11, page 99) of the "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions", a book published by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

Saint Francis of Assissi Prayer

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;

that where there is hatred,
   I may bring love;

that where there is wrong,
   I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;

that where there is discord,
   I may bring harmony;

that where there is error,
   I may bring truth;

that where there is doubt,
   I may bring faith;

that where there is despair,
   I may bring hope;

that where there are shadows,
   I may bring light;

that where there is sadness,
   I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather 
to comfort, than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
 

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
 

Amen.