Serenity Prayer
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 8:46AM
Christy Ramsey in 12 step, Alcoholic Anonymous, Niebuhr, Prayers, Serenity, prayer

Thanks to Reinhold Niebuhr for creating and Wikipedia for preserving this version of a prayer. You can read its history there. 


God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
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.

 

 

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