Still Reflecting on Prayer
Today we conclude a week of exploration focused on the theme of prayer. Prayer is important to people of every faith tradition. We’ve spent some time in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions this week.
Our final prayer for the week returns us to the Christian tradition and to the pen of Reformed Church theologian and preacher, Reinhold Niebuhr. Most of us have heard the beginning part of this prayer that has been entitled “The Serenity Prayer.” Today I share with you the rest of that prayer.
“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 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,
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with you forever in the next.”
May your Friday be filled with good things and may your weekend be at least reasonably happy.
--Ben Keckler
01.22.10
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