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. Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it, Trusting that You will make all things right, Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. The most well-known version was published in 1951 with the addition of the word “grace.” This full version reads: The Serenity to accept the things I cannot change Īnd the Wisdom to know the difference, Amen. The Serenity Prayer can be found in either the common shortened form or the more extended, full version with portions of language altered. Over the years, different versions of the prayer have been published. Wygal placed the prayer in newspaper articles as early as the 1930s and then, in an altered form, in a book of worship in 1940. Reinhold Niebuhr is universally attributed as the author of what we know as “ The Serenity Prayer.” Its promotion was likely from a diary excerpt from Niebuhr’s student and collaborator, Winnifred Crane Wygal. Thank you God for your help and strength with this resentment.Dr. I pray that they will receive everything they need. Help me to feel compassionate understanding and love for this person. So, I am asking you to give this person everything I want for myself. **Dear God, I have a resentment towards a person that I want to be free of. I know I can’t be helpful to all people, but at least show me how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one. Lord, help me to avoid retaliation or argument. Father, please show me how I can be helpful to him and save me from being angry. Please help me show those I resent the same Tolerance, Pity and Patience that I would cheerfully grant a sick friend.** Help me to see that this is a sick man. Help me to master my resentments by understanding that the people who wrong me were perhaps spiritually sick. Show me that the wrong-doing of others, fancied or real, has the power to actually kill me. God, Please help me to be free of anger and to see that the world and its people have dominated me. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.ġ2. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.ġ1. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.ġ0. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.ĩ. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.Ĩ. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.ħ. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.Ħ. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.ĥ. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.Ĥ. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.ģ. We admitted we were powerless over _-that our lives had become unmanageable.Ģ.
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