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 seek not so much 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.
Amen
And as we begin this Advent holy season :
At this Christmas, when Christ Comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of advent by loving and serving the others with God’s own love and concern.
—Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta