A Prayer for Serenity
In these chaotic-seeming times, what can we do but ask God to ground us, to hold us still, and to give us His Peace and Serenity?
It’s been a while since I posted a prayer here. This one had long been on my radar. Today, I looked up the author and added a link to a short YouTube film about him. There are a number of longer films on him, as he obviously had a lot of impact on many people.
May these words of prayer touch all who find it - in whatever complex situation they find themselves.
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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.
— The Serenity Prayer, Reinhold Niebuhr
Thank you for keeping me grounded, my head wants to explode sometimes with all that is going on, but remembering this prayer helps me get by. God bless us all.