reflection

In the blog I just finished I forgot about today's reflection. I was the leader of today's reflection time, and I want to share just the final part. I read a prayer from a book about Mother Teresa called No Greater Love. It is the Daily Prayer of the Co-workers of Mother Teresa, and it is adapted from the Prayer of Saint Francis:
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them, through our hands, this day their daily bread, and by our understanding Love, give Peace and Joy. 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 forgetting self that one finds, it is by forgiving that one is forgiven, it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Amen.