{"id":11143,"date":"2023-04-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=11143"},"modified":"2023-04-23T13:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:34:03","slug":"the-serenity-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/the-serenity-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Serenity Prayer!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"The Serenity Prayer! 4\/29\/23\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=2hecd-13eca8d-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=0&#038;download=0&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Garamond&#038;skin=1b1b1b&#038;font-color=ffffff&#038;logo_link=none&#038;btn-skin=3267a3\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>God, grant me the serenity<br>to accept the people I cannot change,<br>which is pretty much everyone,<br>since I\u2019m clearly not you, God.<br>At least not the last time I checked.<br>And while you\u2019re at it, God,<br>please give me the courage<br>to change what I need to change about myself,<br>which is frankly a lot, since, once again,<br>I\u2019m not you, which means I\u2019m not perfect.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It\u2019s better for me to focus on changing myself<br>than to worry about changing other people,<br>who, as you\u2019ll no doubt remember me saying,<br>I can\u2019t change anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Finally, give me the wisdom to just shut up<br>whenever I think that I\u2019m clearly smarter<br>than everyone else in the room,<br>that no one knows what they\u2019re talking about except me,<br>or that I alone have all the answers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Basically, God,<br>grant me the wisdom<br>to remember that I\u2019m<br>not you.<br>Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Father James Martin, S.J., an American Jesuit priest, writer and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine,&nbsp;<em>America<\/em>. He is the author of the best-selling,&nbsp;<em>Learning to Pray<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>My Life with the Saints.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Lucas Pezeta for the picture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fr. Martin\u2019s version of the Serenity Prayer is a good one to keep handy and to pray often.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YOU CAN\u2019T EXPECT GOD TO BE THE SOURCE OF YOUR PEACE IF THE WORLD IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR SATISFACTION!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, grant me the serenityto accept the people I cannot change,which is pretty much everyone,since I\u2019m clearly not you, God.At least not the last time I checked.And while you\u2019re at it, God,please give me the courageto change what I need to change about myself,which is frankly a lot, since, once again,I\u2019m not you, which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out-.jpg",108,67,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hand-Reaching-Out--45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"God, grant me the serenityto accept the people I cannot change,which is pretty much everyone,since I\u2019m clearly not you, God.At least not the last time I checked.And while you\u2019re at it, God,please give me the courageto change what I need to change about myself,which is frankly a lot, since, once again,I\u2019m not you, which means&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11145,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143\/revisions\/11145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}