The Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it;
Trusting that You will make all things right
If I surrender to Your will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
I am praying this prayer this week, so that I can remember to accept the world as it is, and not as I want or wish it to be, and to accept that things are going to be difficult. I need to stop spinning my wheels and burning myself out trying to change things I have no control over. But if I trust God and surrender to His will and His agenda, and not my own, that I will be able to be "reasonably happy" in my life now. And so that I can remember that I can look forward to being "supremely happy" with God forever in heaven.
Monday, April 6, 2009
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