Just For Today-Grace
STEP ELEVEN: Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with God as we
understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His
will for us and the power to carry that out.
"'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.'
"As though lying on a sunlit beach, let us
relax and breathe deeply of the spiritual
atmosphere with which the grace of this prayer
surrounds us."
c. 1952, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
pages 99-100