A Serenity Prayer Meditation

Written by Pastor Sarah Isakson

For many of us in the world, this Serenity prayer is prayed many times a day to help us center on God and ask for Guidance.

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time and accepting hardship as a way 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.

Serenity, Courage and Wisdom are three of many gifts from God through the Holy Spirit . I meditate on this daily and visualize this prayer in Soul Serenity, Heart Courage, and Head Wisdom. Breathing deeply and sending God's essence to central points in my body. This helps me to return to God when " the world is too much with us (me) " as the poem By William Wordsworth laments about the Industrial Revolution.

The World is Too Much With Us
By William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be
A pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.