Prayer for Serenity

God, 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.


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

-- Reinhold Niebuhr