AN OCTOBER PRAYER: THE SERENITY PRAYER

An October Prayer:
The Serenity Prayer
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. 
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time, 
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace.
Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it. 
Trusting that you will make all things right
If I surrender to your will, 
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with you forever 
In the next. Amen.        by Reinhold Neibuher.
Tom Joyce of SSJ shared this prayer with Fr. Gerlach