New Serenity Prayer

Just a repost from me today. I came across this new Serenity Prayer recently and I love it.
It reminded me to be absolutely honest with God.  It is after all fruitless to think you can be anything other than honest with God since He already knows.  It also prompts me to be absolutely honest with myself - which can prove to be a bit harder especially when facing my disappointments, uncertainty and my own faults.

Here is the prayer - I may have to make prayer cards.

A New Serenity Prayer

byJAMES MARTIN, SJ 

God, grant me the serenity

to accept the people I cannot change,

which is pretty much everyone,

since I’m clearly not you, God.

At least not the last time I checked.

And while you’re at it, God,

please give me the courage

to change what I need to change about myself,

which is frankly a lot, since, once again,

I’m not you, which means I’m not perfect.

It’s better for me to focus on changing myself

than to worry about changing other people,

who, as you’ll no doubt remember me saying,

I can’t change anyway.

Finally, give me the wisdom to just shut up

whenever I think that I’m clearly smarter

than everyone else in the room,

that no one knows what they’re talking about except me,

or that I alone have all the answers.

Basically, God,

grant me the wisdom

to remember that I’m

not you.

Amen