The Serenity Prayer - Random Sunday Nonsense Series 7
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Above: The Eiffel Tower
Looking at the Eiffel Tower, something that struck me, beyond the sheer engineering magnificance and show of steel, literally, and all the romance and mysteries attached to it, was the strength it signfied. Something more mental than physical. Like sometimes, I feel I am this big tower which can brave all forces and powers, and I stand tall, unmoved and unfazen by anything.
As a child, I remember sleeping, and then waking up, looking at a small wall frame hung on my wall. On it was a simple prayer called the Serenity Prayer. Its not there any more. But I realize its my favorite prayer, the only prayer that I have enjoyed and probably one that I understood for a change. Initially I thought, oh..what a contradiction.. Serenity versus a Tower. But I feel its the concept of inner serenity that will allow you to believe in yourself and rise above everything else and stand strong as an individual.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting 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 Niebuhr
Labels: prayer, Random Nonsense, soul
posted by Mind Curry at Sunday, February 24, 2008
4 Comments:
That is my favt prayer too. Thought provoking!
glad i checked you blog now. needed that prayer.
This is one of my fav prayers besides the one below by St Francis of Assisi.
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen."
i love this poem....i never had the full version, thanks to u, now i do.
richa.
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