Return with me this
morning to the 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. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time,
accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. taking, as Christ did, this sinful
(read: broken, bruised, gone astray) world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that God will make all things right if I surrender to God’s will. That
I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with God forever in
the next. Amen.
This is the third time
this week we have said this prayer. Is
there something new you heard? A
word that caught your attention or a phrase that unsettled you? You can pray the same prayer every day for
your whole life and never tire of it, because words create worlds each time
we speak them. Each time I say, “I
love you” to my family, those words recreate a world. Yes, the same words can be repetitive or go
on autopilot. Or words can fashion and
form new things. This is why gratitude
is endless new each day. Today I am
thanking that I woke up. I am
breathing. The sun is shining and a bird
just whistled a tune. The mystery that
our bodies are constantly shedding skin, recreating/resurrecting, and we look
in the mirror and we are able to still recognize ourselves! The mystery of relationships. The joy of laughter and music and love that
fills our hearts. The world is alive
with God. Do we notice? Do we let the holy hovering in our lives get
a word in edgewise? This is the endless
source of thanksgiving.
May the beauty of living
the questions today so enliven your heart and soul, making all the
difference. Alleluia and Amen.
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