Prayer is the oldest and the simplest expression of religion. Now even scientific research has established that it works. So, how can we pray to have our heart’s desire fulfilled?
Prayer
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;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not
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.
—A hymn by St Francis of Assisi,
favoured by New Agers
