Below is the full text of the original Serenity Prayer, a profound meditation on humility, endurance, and surrender. Compared to the abbreviated version recited in meetings, how does this fuller text deepen and enrich your understanding of it?
Prayer For Serenity
God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can & 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
– Reinhold Niebuhr
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