You’re are breathing rapidly, your heart is thudding in your chest. The world is chaotic and you feel you are losing all sense of control. The harder you try to hang on, the more things seems to slip through your tired fingers.
Do you recognize this feeling? The feeling that it’s all a bit too much? The feeling that you are overwhelmed? That you just want to run from a situation, cover yourself in blankets and forget everything? Pray this Serenity Prayer and let God help you.You are not alone!
God is with you. He wants to give you his peace and rest.
Do you want to pray but are you having a hard time coming up with words? Do you wonder how you should pray? Maybe this Serenity Prayer will help you.
Serenity Prayer
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.
About this prayer
This Serenity Prayer was written in 1943 by Reinhold Niebuhr. In the past century it helped thousands of people in their search for a more stable life.
God has created you and whatever the situation may be; He wants to give you peace, deep inner peace. God can give you a peace, a calmness, that you can’t find anywhere else. Pray and God will give you what you need. Just give it a try!
It is beautifully stated in the Bible: “Present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7).
You can trust that God will bring everything to a good end. Just surrender everything to Him.
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