Serenity Prayer

[tigerlily11]

Serenity Prayer

[Punkinhead75]

Thanks for starting the thread and for sharing the long version.  Have a great day!!!!

[trdofbeingtrd]

I freaking love this prayer/poem. Seriously, it is so wise. Thank you for posting, I needed that :0)

[hellc@mst]

The history of the Serenity Prayer and the surrounding controversy is very lurid and checkered. The above adaptation is actually a bastardised,plagiarised version of American theoligian, Reinhold Niebuhr's, original supplication.

To be fair, the popular version has a more melodic cadence and rolls off the tongue  more easily than the original. I just find it curious that Niebuhr is rarely, if ever, acknowledged as the original author and credit for his pontifical invocation is mostly attributed to disputable sources. I also find the efforts by certain interest groups to cynically obfuscate the Serenity Prayer's bonafide origins a little bewildering.  

God, give us 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.

                          Regards Jeremy ( Recovered Addict )
                         3 years 7 months drug and alcohol free

[lorifree]

The Serenity Prayer has got me thru a lot of things, especially during my detox!