After anxiously obsessing over election results so that I lost sleep last night and remain annoyingly agitated this morning...I decided I needed this blog today.
[Note: This original version of the Serenity Prayer was written by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in 1932-1933. It has been used as a major comforter in 12 Step meetings for decades.]
So this one's for me. Perhaps you can glean some peace of mind from it as well.
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.
Serenity is napping with a grandson
