Prayer for Serenity
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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 that I may
be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely
happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
