Serenity Prayer

[saffy]

Note About The Serenity Prayer's Real Author

You'll find many references online to some not being sure who really wrote the above prayer, some claiming that Reinhold Niebuhr was not actually the author. Many have researched it, including trying to find out if it even goes back to 500 A.D. Despite all the research, though, it still goes back to Niebuhr being the author.

We were talking about this in the Answer and Ask category and I thought this was interesting.

Here is the original

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.

[♥Starlene]

Thanks Saffy, I only knew the first part of this prayer

[Sloan]

wow, i missed this. love this though and like Star I only knew the first part. thanks saffy