A good friend

Asher Ledwidge a good friend of mine who is a Volunteer Prison Chaplain at LCI gave me a note today entitled “Human kindness”; Lord, make me a vessel of you divine love. Grant me inner peace, like still water drawn from your source of infinite love, let me be a fountain of human kindness.
Where there is hate let me bestow love, where there is darkness let me glow light. Where there is injury, let me show forgiveness. Where there is fear, let me sow faith despair let me grow hope. Arrogance let me flow humility.
Wherever religious or racial prejudice or any social rejection is come to afflict the human soul let me be there, not to curse the darkness more but be the light of a thousand candles glowing to make humanity whole.
Lord grant that I may seek first, not to be loved but to show love. Grant that I may pour contempt on my own selfish obsessive material desire, so forever higher and higher may flow a spiritual river of human kindness.