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[jodawi]

Come up with a non-religious, non-helpless-recipient version of the Serenity Prayer (first stanza only):

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.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Comments

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Substitute "I am ready for" for "God grant me"

[beaq.livejournal.com]

I think I don't mind the religiosity in either verse. They both feel kinda Buddhist, except for the happy afterlife thing.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Also, I love you up.

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

I just drop "God" in the first verse. It doesn't feel helpless to me. I use it to remind myself that I can make a difference in many things, but that some battles are not worth fighting, and that it's worth taking a moment to decide which is which.

You know, I'm not sure I've ever seen the second verse before now. Dunno what I think of it.

[sgnp.livejournal.com]

If it ain't broke
Don't fix it
If you can't fix it
Fuck it