Prayer of Saint Francis ( The AA 11th Step Prayer)

As we jump into December and the Christmas season, please let this prayer help you like it helps me. It helps me to focus on others and to keep me humble and grateful for all the blessings in my life that I have received from God.  

My 12 Step friends know this as the 11th Step Prayer. For my other friends,  the St. Francis Prayer helps me to stay focused and grounded on seeking God’s will and being of service to Him and others in my daily Christian walk.

In my Christian life and Spiritualgrowth, the St. Francis prayer helps me improve my conscious contact with God. I think that one of the great advantages of my faith in God is that I do not understand Him completely. I am constantly learning about God and His grace.  All that I am certain of is that if I continue to improve my conscious contact, I will know His will for me, and I will have the power to carry it out.

Please check this prayer out and see how it applies to your experience.

Prayer of Saint Francis

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.