02-11-2015, 11:12 AM
(02-11-2015, 10:32 AM)Lou Wrote: well, this is the Serenity Prayer. Well known to Old Hippies and members of AA. (and not that I want the job of Grammar Police but it's not patients but patience. Otherwise, you got it all right!)
The prayer has been variously but incorrectly attributed to, among others, Thomas Aquinas, Cicero, Augustine, Boethius, Marcus Aurelius,[18] Francis of Assisi,[19] Thomas More, and Friedrich Christoph Oetinger.
Well done, Lou. You can add that it is well known to those of us who pray regularly when we are just in a bad spot and can't think of how to ask for help or identify what exactly we need. It is called the Serenity Prayer for a reason...because when filled with angst or fear, sometimes this is the just best we can do. I always feel as though if I can remember this prayer and live the Golden Rule, I'll be okay.
"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today." ~Mark Twain