The 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, 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;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.

— Reinhold Neibuhr