Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
I do not remember whose prayer it is, so if you do, pls let me know. I don't like using quotations without giving credit to the author.
Susan, my friend reminded me of this prayer today, after I told her how unhappy I was about certain things in my life, that all came about through my own choice, so I dont even have anyone else to blame. (Maybe it would be so nice to blame and hate someone. Maybe not.)
But as it is, all the things I have to face now came about because I made some choices at certain points in my life. Nobody forced me. And those choices were not at all bad, I probably would make them again.
Nevertheless I am facing difficulties and "situations" today that I wish I did not have to. But what can I do? Nothing really, except pray.
So this prayer is a good one for me, I will translate it into Hungarian for myself and say it like a mantra. (I still pray in Hungarian, somehow praying in other languages like English or Mongolian does not feel real.)
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The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer written by the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930s or early 1940s. You can read more about it at: http://www.answers.com/topic/serenity-prayer
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