"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."
~ Reinhold Niebuhr.
This is a section of a poem/ prayer entitled the "Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Niebuhr. With a bunch of different situations arising in my life right now, coming across this piece of literature was...I hardly even know how to describe it...but I'm grateful that I stumbled on it.
It was a much needed reminder to the mindset that I need to be having about events in my life. Sometimes I just try to take too much control over everything myself...sometimes when I don't even know what I'm talking about...and that's when things fall even farther apart. Yet, it's still a lesson easily taught, but difficult to recieve or apply...even after being learned. For some reason...I try to do what I don't know how...because of untrust for even the people that do know. Which is another thing I have to be working on.
Whenever things go wrong...whether with me, or other people...I want to be able to fix it. But...some of the times I can't...No. Scratch that. A LOT of the time I can't. But I still try..which can sometimes be a good thing...but other times, I just end up driving myself crazy and I end up getting hurt in some way because of it...That's where this prayer comes in.
Sometimes I need that serenity to accept things I cannot change...other times I need more courage to change things I can...but most of ALL, I do just need the wisdom to truly, honestly tell the difference.
...on a random side note...I think that when I get married and have kids..I want to name one of my daughters "Serenity".
I think that would be a good name for a girl.
Serenity.
