With departure only 2 weeks & a day away, frustrations have been mounting lately. People not doing what they say they will do, phone calls not being returned & general beauracratic b.s. has made me a little irritable. So, I did what I've done so many times over the past couple of years: went for a long walk & recited the Serenity Prayer, long version. It's the best prayer I know & never gets old. Reinhold Niebuhr is credited with this version.
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can & 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 I may reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You, forever, in the next. Amen"
It works for me every single time, no matter what's bothering me. Perhaps it may help you through a tough spot sometime.
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I've never heard the whole serenity prayer, though I know the first line in my heart. I really needed to see this today, Fred. Thank you.
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