A New Serenity Prayer for all Survivors

[Cindy]

The following prayer I recieved during a psych hospital stay 4 years ago and it has been in a prayer box around my neck ever since. I thought I would share my riches.

Grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change, the COURAGE to change the things I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference. Grant me PATIENCE with the changes that take time,
an APPRECIATION of all that I have, TOLERANCE of those with different struggles and the STRENGTH to get up and try again, one day at a time.

Cindy

 

[hodge]

I like this prayer, Cindy. Thanks for posting it.

 

[Cecilia]

I LOVE this prayer!! Thank you so much!

 

[Grama-Herc]

This prayer is fantastic. With your permission I would like to write it down and save it for myself during those rough times.

Can't print a copy cuz I got no printer, duh! dam it!

Thank You for sharing

 

[nic]

Thank you, Cindy.

 

[Cindy]

The prayer gives me a lot of strength. After I dug it out of my documents I printed with a picture of my Best Friend. My chocolate lab that died a year ago 3 days before Christmas. She and the prayer are with me always in my heart.

You can use it in any way that helps you. Share it with others. I have never seen it before with that ending until I was given it in the Psych hospital. The patience part about taking time is the ringer for me, and one day at a time.

 

[pandora]

Love this.....I think I say the serenity prayer about 25 times per day...I love the ending with this version. Made me tear up!

 

[sunnydaze]

Cindy
That one was excellent. Thanks for sharing it.
sunnydaze

 

[pandora]

And i just said this...saying a little prayer for myself and to stay strong for my son and tonight this one was added!!!!!!!!iTHank you again...I take strength in these phrases....I should post some of my positive affirmations in a book I have devoted for this reason. Haven't read it or added to it in a while. I will Have to find it....

 

[goingonhope]

Grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change, the COURAGE to change the things I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference. Grant me PATIENCE with the changes that take time, an APPRECIATION of all that I have, TOLERANCE of those with different struggles and the STRENGTH to get up and try again, one day at a time.

:thumbs-upGreat prayer Cindy!

Pardon my sic humor and ignorance here please, but it all seems too Easy. (smiles) Is there anyway one might truly complicate such a prayer, for people like myself.....(me specifically), so as to make it and my life more interesting and difficult to live and to be. :wink:

No, ....for real, and beyond my point and other silly nonsense tonight, I intend to give this prayer a try, because though I generally can find the Strength to get up and try again, one day at a time. And, even Appreciation of all that I have, which I can increasingly experience. ..........But, ouch that Tolerance of those with different struggles, specifically deeply intellectual struggles, escapes me, and I need a lot of, lot of, lot of, help in this area. I trust that this sounds egotistical and I'm sure it is, and so that's all the more reason to have such uselessness removed from me.

I believe the roots are within certain traumas from my youth, and yet until this prayer, I hadn't much of a clue as to how I might truly overcome such conceit surrounding specifically Family of Origin and some real-time people, surrounding my life, with great similarities to FOO.

Such unwillingness to dig, think, re-think and do one's own best thinking for oneself and the benefit of others, I find is an enormous trigger for me.

This has nothing to do with the forum, nor a soul upon it, rather everything to do with self-defeating, egotistical luggage which I've been carrying along, as I go about my daily life with me, too often still and for way too long.


.......hope such is lifted from me before I must learn more things the hard way.

Thank you, for sharing this with us Cindy! It's got me thinking tonight, perhaps praying as I lay my head down in a bit, and if not asking and/or praying for this tonight, well then perhaps tommorrow.

I'm ready for bed.

Goodnight!


Hope

 

[Luthien]

That was great, I'll be using it myself. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

 

[pandora]

It is so nice to see a thread that was so helpful be pulled back up after not being seen in a while, helped me again tonight and is available for all of our new members. Thank you again, Cindy.