Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

The famous prayer of St Francis - probably not written by him - was put to some beautiful music by a South African songwriter in unusual circumstances. Hear the story and let's take a look at the wonderful words of this prayer.

LYRICS:

1 Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love;
where there is injury, your healing power,
and where there’s doubt, true faith in you.

O, Master, grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love with all my soul.

2 Make me a channel of your peace:
where there’s despair in life let me bring hope;
Where there is darkness, only light,
and where there’s sadness, ever joy.

3 Make me a channel of your peace:
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
in giving to all men that we receive,
and in dying that we’re born to eternal life.