Serenity

God, grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

The courage to change the things that I can;

And the wisdom to know the difference.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

I'm going to start saying this every morning before I get out of bed, and hope it helps. My mom always use to say it to me when I was having issues. I miss hearing her tell me. I wonder if she'd ever heard this one?

God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,

the good fortune to run into the ones I do,

and the eyesight to tell the difference.

- Author unknown

My dad use to be a real smart-a$$, so I'm sure she probably did! and I'm sure she tsk-tsk'ed him about it too! :)


Yea- (tee hee hee) no really seriously.. I'm kidding Mom! I'm going to start saying it the right way.