giving = receiving

Lord, make me an instrument of peace.
where there is hatred, may i bring love.
where there is offence, forgiveness.
where there is doubt, faith.

where there is desperation, may i bring hope.
where there is sadness, let me bring joy.

allow me to console, rather than be consoled,
to understand, rather than to be understood
to love rather than be loved.

because giving is receiving.
because it is in forgiving that we are forgiven.
it is in dying, we ar eborn to eternal life.

Mother Teresa ( from "Mother Teresa of Calcutta" starring Olivia Hussey)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mother_teresa.html
http://www.quotedb.com/authors/mother-teresa
http://home.att.net/~hillcrestbaptist/mt.html