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The Serenity Prayer (for Today) by Heidi Vermeer-Quist
The Serenity Prayer (for Today)

God, grant me the SERENITY (tranquility, composure and peace) to ACCEPT (gratefully receive) the things I cannot change (others, outcomes and old stuff), COURAGE to change the things I can (myself in this moment, managing my feelings, attitudes and behaviors), and WISDOM (understanding) to know the difference...

LIVING ONE DAY at a time...

ENJOYING ONE MOMENT at a time (mindfully observing, describing and participating in the precious present)...

ACCEPTING HARDSHIP as a pathway to PEACE...

TAKING, as Jesus did, this sinful (evil, corrupt and broken) world as it IS, not as I would have it...

​TRUSTING that You are making all things right as I SURRENDER (give in) to YOUR will...

So that I am reasonably (sensibly and quite) HAPPY in this life and SUPREMELY HAPPY with You forever in the next.

AMEN (So be it!)

– Adapted from Reinhold, Niebuhr's Original by Heidi Vermeer-Quist

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