Serenity Prayer

The full original serenity prayer

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 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 Prayer PDF
Attributed to Theologian Reinhold Neibuhr

The recovery movement makes use of the shorter version of the Serenity Prayer:
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.

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