SERENITY - in touch with the Infinite

SERENITY        communion with the Infinite

a place where we all long to be.........................
a place we can go to ............................
whenever we want to ..................
why not go there now.............


    picture by  Frank Lukasseck


  photo by   Kyle Krause


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We can have serenity...............................................

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This is a sculpture entitled "SERENITY" - 

      

Artist	Jose Clara       (spanish artist....)
Year	1925
Type	Marble
Dimensions	200.66 cm × 164.592 cm (79.00 in × 64.800 in)
Location	Washington, D.C., United States
	38°55′19″N 77°2′10″W
Owner	National Park Service

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 Serenity Prayer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971). It has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs.
The best-known form is:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

The original, attributed to Niebuhr, is:

God, give me grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

Courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the Wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

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 forever in the next.

Amen.

 An approximate version (apparently quoted from memory) appears in the "Queries and Answers" column in The New York Times Book Review, July 2, 1950, p. 23, which asks for the author of the quotation; and a reply in the same column in the issue for August 13, 1950, p. 19, where the quotation is attributed to Niebuhr and an unidentified printed text is quoted as follows:

O God and Heavenly Father,

Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed; courage to change that which can be changed, and wisdom to know the one from the other, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

 Some of the possible history is interesting:  

Precursors

The philosopher W.W. Bartley juxtaposes without comment Niebuhr's prayer with a Mother Goose rhyme (1695) expressing a similar sentiment

For every ailment under the sun

There is a remedy, or there is none;

If there be one, try to find it;

If there be none, never mind it.

The 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar Shantideva of Nalanda University expressed a similar sentiment^.

If there’s a remedy when trouble strikes,

What reason is there for dejection?

And if there is no help for it,

What use is there in being glum?

There are some interesting books about serenity.

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More information at:

http://4-my-best-life.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/making-choices.html 

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