Serenity Prayer

"Suffering can lead to serenity, if we respond to it with trust in a loving God who will make all things right.

We must remember: Love would not allow what Love could not restore."

And God is Love.

"God can triumph over any twist of plot the enemy of our souls scrawls across our pages, and He writes a much better story than we do."

Many years ago, you gave me this:

"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."

Recently I learnt that there is a second half of the Serenity Prayer:

"Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships 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;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.
Amen."

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/09/17348/