Serenity Prayer

Tuesday Take
6/14/2016

God, please grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
Courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

As a believer, this prayer has accomplished in easing much built-up anxiety, depression, or fear in situations of my life where it all seemed out of control. 

Serenity Prayer has been in existence since the early 20th-Century, and surely it has helped millions of people over the years. I discovered this when a friend and boss recited it to me when I was concerned and overwhelmed by a long-distance relationship, a bleak future in an undetermined career, and an exhausted heart from caring too much without any return on investment. 

It's a quote that when you read it there is little impact. There's a certain way for this make an impact on you... Establish some privacy with a quiet and substantial distance from the busy and buzzing world... Close your eyes (or read the words off a piece of paper if you don't have it memorized) and bow your head... Recite these words while imagining all the problems and issues you have in your life around you... Upon the completion and slowly thereafter the recitation (sometimes you have to repeat it), you will feel the weight lift and a sort of divine wisdom flow over you. If you go into it believing it won't work, then it won't. If you believe or have an open heart, then you can find something peaceful afterwards.