But He did send Jesus, and those who accept His sacrifice are the only ones who have a real hope of being “reasonably happy” in this life and supremely happy in the next.
If that were true, He would not have sent His Son to die for sin and reconcile the sinful world to Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19). At the same time, the serenity prayer says God takes the sinful world as it is. Fretting and worrying our way through life indicates a lack of faith in our God and an unwillingness to surrender to His will and trust that He has all things under control.
The serenity prayer speaks of a life lived in calm, courageous faith in God, reminiscent of Paul’s admonition to “be anxious for nothing” (Philippians 4:6). to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. It has been part of Alcoholics Anonymous ever since and has also been used in other twelve-step programs.īiblically speaking, there are some excellent thoughts expressed in this prayer and may very well be something Christians can pray and meditate on. The co-founder of AA, William Griffith Wilson, and his staff liked the serenity prayer and had it printed out in modified form and handed around. The first two lines are most familiar because of their association with Alcoholics Anonymous. That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change Ĭourage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.Īccepting hardships as the pathway to peace The text of the entire serenity prayer is as follows: Niebuhr himself did not publish the serenity prayer until 1951, in one of his magazine columns, although it had previously appeared under his name in 1944, when it was included in a Federal Council of Churches book for army chaplains and servicemen. There are various versions of the serenity prayer floating around with minor alterations. We accumulate it in our abilities, habits and in the case of humans, our habits of thought.The serenity prayer is attributed to a Protestant theologian named Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971). The Serenity Prayer is a petition to God asking for calmness and peace in all matters of life. Adaptation is the process by which we accumulate the wisdom to know the difference between what we can and can’t change. A beaver whose body manifests the courage to change the weather and the serenity to accept trees as unchangeable would not survive to reproduce. The life forms that survive are the ones that exert themselves to transform what they can transform and not what they can’t. Their teeth are evidence of their adaptive ability to change tree trunks.
Their thick fur coats are evidence of their adaptive acceptance that they can’t change the weather. It had occurred to me already that evolutionary adaptation paralleled the serenity prayer. 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. To accept the things I cannon change Courage to change the things I can And the wisdom to know the.
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At the time I had been thinking a lot about Darwinism and the serenity prayer. What is the full version of the Serenity Prayer.
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