Serenity Prayer

Serenity Prayer – Long Version

 

God, give us 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.

 

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.

 

Serenity Prayer – Short Version

 

“God grant me the courage to change the things I can change,

The serenity to accept those I cannot change, And the wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

St. Francis of Assisi’s Serenity Prayer

 

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy;

 

O Divine Master, grant that I may not

so much seek

To be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved as to love;

 

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying of the self that we are born

to eternal life.

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