serenity now

i can't think today. or, i can't think straight today. 


i feel completely overwhelmed. personally and with work. 

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; (wait? what? i can't change that? let me try, one more time)
courage to change the things I can; (kah kah kaurugous)
and wisdom to know the difference. (well, if i ain't got the first two down i'm really lacking here)

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; (finding this to be reality but it still sucks!)
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right (when? okay. i don't get to know that, either)
if I surrender to His Will; (ah, the catch)

That I may be reasonably happy in this life  (what happened to ecstatically?)
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next. (Maranatha)
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr