This is one of my favorite prayers. I decided to create a song based on it. Here’s the prayer in its entirety, followed by the lyrics and two musical versions.

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.

Instrument of Your Peace (Inspired by the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi)

[Verse 1]
Lord, make me an instrument of peace,
A vessel of Your grace released.
Where hatred burns, let love take flame,
And mercy bloom where there was pain.

Where hearts are torn, let healing start,
Where doubt abides, renew the heart.
Where shadows fall, let Your light shine,
And turn the sorrow into rhyme.

[Chorus]
Let me be Your hands, let me be Your voice,
Not to seek my will, but Your holy choice.
Teach me, Lord, to give, not to receive,
To forgive, to love, and to believe.

[Verse 2]
Where despair is deep, let hope arise,
A dawn to break the weary skies.
Where sadness dwells, let joy be born,
A gentle peace to calm the storm.

O Master true, my heart I bring,
Not for comfort that I sing—
But to console, to understand,
To love the lost, to take their hand.

[Chorus]
Let me be Your hands, let me be Your voice,
Not to seek my will, but Your holy choice.
Teach me, Lord, to give, not to receive,
To forgive, to love, and to believe.

[Bridge]
For in the giving, I am found,
In mercy’s arms, on sacred ground.
And when this life fades into night,
You’ll call me home to endless light.

[Final Chorus]
Let me be Your heart, let me be Your peace,
Till all my striving shall cease.
For it’s in dying, we are reborn,
To life eternal, love’s bright morn.

[Outro]
Lord, make me an instrument of peace,
Forever Yours, my soul’s release.

Version 1

Version 2