This prayer, from Reinhold Niebuhr, is changing my life. Pray it every day. When you wake up. When you go to bed. When you are making dinner. On your lunch break. In the car. Pray it as often as you can. Pray it slowly. Pray it when you run. Pray it when you are at wit's end. This is what I'll be praying in 2009. Those AA folks know what they are doing and they have a thing or ten to teach Christians and spiritual seekers alike.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
2 comments:
I agree wholeheartedly! It is such a wonderful prayer to say and hear. If I were king for a day I would require everyone to attend an AA meeting or Celebrate Recovery at least once. It changed my life.
Thanks for posting this prayer.
I usually pray the Lord's Prayer daily, but this might get worked in to the rotation.
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