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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 hardships as the pathway to
peace;
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
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The Serenity Prayer is the common name
for a prayer written by the American
theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971). The best-known
form is:
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.
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
Niebuhr, who first wrote the prayer
for a sermon at Heath
Evangelical Union Church in Heath, Massachusetts, used it widely in sermons as
early as 1934 and first published it in 1951
in a magazine column. The prayer spread through
Niebuhr's sermons and church groups in the 1930s and 1940s and was adopted and
popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and
other twelve-step programs.
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