{"id":6489,"date":"2001-01-01T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:47:23","slug":"serenity-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/serenity-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The original Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a very infuential American theologian. He wrote what came to be known as the Serenity Prayer for a sermon, and used it in a variety of forms, including a longer-form poem. Below is the best-known version of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can,<\/em><br>\n<em>And wisdom to know the difference.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Reinhold Niebuhr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also our version of it: Courage, Serenity &amp; Wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also our version of it: <a href=\"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wisdom\/\"><em>A mindful, proactive quest for serenity, courage &amp; wisdom<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reinhold Niebuhr&#8217;s poem:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God, grant me the serenity<br>\nto accept the things<br>\nI cannot change,<br>\nCourage to change the<br>\nthings I can, and the<br>\nwisdom to know the difference.<br>\nLiving one day at a time;<br>\nEnjoying one moment at a time;<br>\nAccepting hardship as the<br>\npathway to peace.<br>\nTaking, as He did, this<br>\nsinful world as it is,<br>\nnot as I would have it.<br>\nTrusting that He will make<br>\nall things right if I<br>\nsurrender to His Will;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That I may be reasonably happy<br>\nin this life, and supremely<br>\nhappy with Him forever in<br>\nthe next.<br>\nAmen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reinhold Niebuhr (1926)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>See also our version of it: <a href=\"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/serenity\/\"><em>Serenity, courage &amp; wisdom<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12091,"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions\/12091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proactive12steps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}