The Serenity Prayer

GOD, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
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 I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.


By Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)