Hi all,

If your like me, you might not have even known there is more written on the serenity prayer than what we say in meetings.  I didn't hear the longer version untill about a year ago at a meeting.  As with many other alanon quotes, I have it written in my Paths to Recovery book (which I call my alanon Big-Book) and read it from time to time.  I love it and hope you do as well.

Serenity Prayer

God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot 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.

Accepting hardships 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 supremly happy with you forever in the next.

Amen

Author:

Reinhold Niebuhr

Lots of love, Trina