| Alan L. Roeck, Anonymous - 1980 - 196 pagini
...place where I belong. I am content. I do not vainly wish for things I cannot have. I have "the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." Have I found contentment in AA? Meditation for the Day In all of... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1969 - 448 pagini
...these questions for yourself as you learn to live by Al-Anon principles, and be guided day by day by the serenity prayer: "God grant me the SERENITY to...cannot change, COURAGE to change the things I can, and WISliflH to know the difference." WHAT AL-ANON MEANS TO FAMILIES OF ALCOHOLICS The wife of an alcoholic... | |
| Charles H. Harris, Charles B. Harris - 1972 - 166 pagini
...Slaughterhouse-Five provides the answer to these questions. "God grant me the serenity," it reads, "to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference" (181). Certain things, then, lie within man's control. Included... | |
| Grateful Members, Jerry Hirschfield - 1987 - 148 pagini
...reproduce it here in the abbreviated form adopted by all Twelve Step fellowships: 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. Amen. The repeated use of this prayer has kept many troubled people... | |
| Richard L. Cassidy - 2006 - 75 pagini
...Alcoholics Anonymous prayer is based on one by Reinhold Niebuhr. It is: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." This is one of the most powerful sayings I have ever read.... | |
| Kim T. Mueser, Susan Gingerich - 2006 - 497 pagini
...regard, the Serenity Prayer most aptly summarizes the importance of acceptance: 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. Gaining Insight into Your Relative Difficulties with insight... | |
| Jonathon Lazear - 2006 - 124 pagini
...are still out there. Their energies remain with us—if we let them in. "God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference." -REINHOLDNIEBUHR Mo vi ng On "It does not matter how slowly... | |
| Linda Ostrander - 2006 - 291 pagini
...of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. " MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Day: 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. " ANONYMOUS Day: "Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain... | |
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