Thursday, July 9, 2009

acceptance of life...

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
The wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting the 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;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
~Reinhold Neibuhr
Hmmm. I don't believe I've ever seen this poem in its entirety before. We usually only hear the first part quoted--as an acceptance of life as it is, the good and the bad. I really love the last half ...so powerful...so very true...with the focus being not on ourselves so much as it is on Him.

2 comments:

  1. I've never seen the whole thing either. very nice

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  2. Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will. I truly try to live by those words. Thank you so much for sharing this, Sharilyn.

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