The Serenity Prayer
by Mary Jane Armstrong
Title
The Serenity Prayer
Artist
Mary Jane Armstrong
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A textured antiqued background of a branch with small pink flowers features, "The Serenity Prayer." It reads as follows:
God, give me 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.
The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892�1971). It has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs. The prayer is cited both by Niebuhr and by Niebuhr's daughter, Elisabeth Sifton. Sifton thought that he had first written it in 1943, although Niebuhr's wife wrote in an unpublished memorandum that it had been written in 1941 or '42, adding that it may have been used in prayers as early as 1934. Niebuhr himself was quoted in the January 1950 Grapevine as saying the prayer "may have been spooking around for years, even centuries, but I don't think so. I honestly do believe that I wrote it myself." In his book Niebuhr recalls that his prayer was circulated by the FCC and later by the United States armed forces. Niebuhr's versions of the prayer were always printed as a single prose sentence; printings that set out the prayer as three lines of verse modify the author's original version. Wikkipedia
Beautiful when printed on acrylic and hung in a place of meditation.
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July 20th, 2013
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