Cooperate With The Inevitable

"God grant me this serenity to accept the things that I cannot change...

courage to change the things I can...

and the WISDOM to know the difference."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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 hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

As it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that He will make all things right

If I surrender to His Will;

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life

And supremely happy with Him

Forever and ever in the next.

- William Spence