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.

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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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