serenity prayer

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 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.

- Reinhold Niebuhr -