The Eleventh Step 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.