God,
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.
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 in the next.
Amen
(Reinhold Niebuhr)
I believe this framework must be relatively easy for us to live by as compared to our persecuted brothers and sisters in Iran, Syria, China and other nations where there's no external peace provided.
Blessings,
Candice