Music for Ukraine

Music for Ukraine - Day 21

There are great challenges facing our world, and to me, these nightly songs are a form of prayer that can supplement the “in the closet prayer” that we are all praying.

We know that peace begins with us (Hymn 521), and another traditional expression of that thought is in the famous Prayer of St. Francis. I’ve never felt that I could sing the full text of that prayer put to music in a Christian Science church. But Adrienne Tindall has adapted it in a way that preserves it as a healing thought for the current situation of the world.

Dick Frantzreb

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Lord, Make Me an Instrument
Adrienne Tindall

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is sadness, let me sow joy.

I will hear what God the Lord will speak:
For He will speak peace unto His people.

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Grant that I seek not to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
Lord, help me not seek to be loved; help me to love!
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.

Accompaniment by Tom Barr

This was published in Sacred Solos by Adrienne Tindall, Vol. 3. The collection is available from Darcey Press at www.darceypress.com. It is also available from Sheet Music Plus.