Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr

Posted on 02/23/2017 by GettingCloserToOurGod

Several people mentioned the Serenity Prayer to me so posting.

———————————————–

“The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr^[1]^[2] (1892–1971). The best-known form is:

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.

Niebuhr, who first wrote the prayer for a sermon at Heath Evangelical Union Church in Heath, Massachusetts,^[3] used it widely in sermons as early as 1934^[1] and first published it in 1951 in a magazine column.^[1]^[4]The prayer spread both through Niebuhr’s sermons and church groups in the 1930s and 1940s and was later adopted and popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs.”

Details on Serenity Prayer from Wikipedia.

About GettingCloserToOurGod

This blog is written by Todd Christenson. He was raised in Nebraska and currently lives on Long Island in New York. Though out my childhood, my family attended church. We prayed together at meals. I thought I was prepared for life. After college, I moved to New York City. Shy, unsure of myself, building an identity in worldly things, increasingly prideful, self-righteousness, a controlling nature. In 2013, God spoke through someone, suggesting I confess my sins. I did. I realized that every day, I’d been glorifying myself, not God. Today, God’s teaching me to have my identity in Him, only, my dependency in Him, not myself, being who He wants me to be, not the world, loving Him first, loving others as myself.

View all posts by GettingCloserToOurGod →