Prayers

SERENITY PRAYER

God grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And Wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

WISDOM PRAYER

God, grant me the Wisdom
To embrace the unresolved
… Courage to honor the
mystery .. and the Serenity
to accept unconditionally,
all stirrings and movements
of the soul.
~Mary Klingelhoets 1994

COURAGE PRAYER

God, grant me the Courage
to surrender, giving up
control of the outcome …
Wisdom to do what I can do
… and the Serenity to softly
accept and leave the
conclusion in Your hands.
~Mary Klingelhoets 1998

THE PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.