Saturday Song: Instrument of Peace
Instrument of Peace
Where there is hatred
Let me bring love
Where there is doubt
Let me bring faith
Where there is falsehood
Let me bring truth
Where there is pain
I'll comfort you
Where there is silence
Let me sing praise
Where there's despair
Let me bring hope
Where there is blindness
Let me bring sight
Where there is darkness
Let me bring light
And with these words I speak
Grant that I may not seek
To be heard but to hear
To be consoled but to console
Not to be seen but to see
To be loved but to love
For when we give love
We will receive
When we forgive love
We'll find reprieve
It is in dying
We'll be released
Make me an instrument of peace
~performed by The Canadian Tenors
The Original English version of the prayer reads as follows:
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. Amen.
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