Evening Prayer

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. 

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardship as the

pathway to peace. 

Taking, as He did, this

sinful world as it is, 

not as I would have it. 

Trusting that He will make

all things right if I

surrender to His Will; 

That I may be reasonably happy

in this life, and supremely

happy with Him forever in

the next. 

Amen

NOTE: This is the full prayer attributed to Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr reportedly written in 1926. Niebuhr was a Lutheran pastor and theologian. Usually his "Serenity Prayer" is quoted using the first 2 verses only.