The powerful serenity prayer: meaning and how to apply it
Discover the true meaning of the serenity prayer and how it can help you find inner peace and balance in your life.
Grant me serenity, Lord, to accept the things I cannot change, serenity to accept, but also give me courage, bravery, drive, and enthusiasm to change the things I can change, and give me the wisdom needed to discern between what I can and what I cannot.
Wisdom that gives me the ability to know what I must face and what I must resist.
The grace of discernment and wisdom, sustained in serenity, is what allows us, in darkness, to be joyful and content.
The night can be spent happily when shared in a spirit of peace and joy; it is night and not day, but it can be lived as God wants us to live it, in constant consolation, without the pressures and anxieties that tribulations impose when they make us take steps beyond what we can truly take.
That is why we ask for wisdom in the midst of serenity.
This courage that fades along the way of everyday life, when the “come on, hurry up, don’t you see you won’t make it” knocks at the door, it is time to make another change on the path, to get out of that state of drowsiness, which wants to steal what we have conquered, in those days when we have regained strength and serenity to start a new day and a new week.