Serenity Prayer

I have always heard the Serenity Prayer and thought it was just the the four lines you see so often.  I thought it as over used and cliche. Then I spent time in a treatment program for depression and continue to attend recovery support groups called Celebrate Recovery.  At the meetings we say the entire Serenity Prayer - that is actually beautiful and full of truth:

God grant me the serenity 

to accept the things I cannot change; 

courage the things I can; 

and the wisdom to know the difference. 

Living one day at a time; 

Enjoying on one moment at a time; 

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; 

Taking, as Jesus did, this sinfull world as it is, 

and not as I would have it; 

Trusting that You will make all things right 

if I surrender to Your Will; 

That I may be reasonably happy in this life 

and supremely happy with You Forever in the next. Amen.

-Reinhold Niebuhr