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If you are looking for it, the Serenity Prayer is everywhere. The prayer is, “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.”

The Serenity Prayer is the mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery programs. Yet freedom from substance abuse is not where the prayer came from. Actually, the Serenity Prayer was composed during wartime. A 28-year-old pastor named Reinhold Niebuhr wrote it. He had the guts to ask God to help him peacefully accept what is irreversible like the past or unalterable like the actions of other people.

His daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, author of The Serenity Prayer, Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War wrote, “The Serenity Prayer addresses the inconsolable pain, loss and guilt that war inflicts on the communities that wage it; it goes to the heart of the possibilities and impossibilities of collective action for collective betterment—that is to say, to the heart of the possibilities for peace.”

At the Realization Center, an outpatient addictions treatment program in New York, the Serenity Prayer is often used to close program’s twelve step meetings. Co-owner Paula Schwartz who runs leads food addiction recovery told The Huffington Post that the Serenity Prayer “summarizes the way we need to be in the world and it recovery. It had to be divinely inspired.”

The first time the serenity prayer was spoken aloud was at the height of the war against Germany in the summer of 1943. It was a run of the mill Sunday morning service at Union Church in Heath, a farming village in a remote corner of northwestern Massachusetts where Niebhur was a seasonal pastor. Sifton told The Huffington Post that her father’s political concerns were the same as his spiritual ones. She told us they were “to pray for the strength to change unjust, illiberal, selfish policies which gave rise to war, social unrest, and economic woe; to pray for the strength to help fashion a more fair, just, and peaceful world, and to work for that end.”

Sifton, now 73 authored her book in 2003 and in 2005 she was interviewed by American Public Radio and said, “My father was a highly criticized, marginalized person who was teaching at an often derided and criticized liberal theological school in New York.”

The first report of the Serenity Prayer’s use outside church walls was in 1944 when it appeared in the Book of Prayers and Services for the Armed Forces which was published by the Federal Council of Churches after a member of Heath Union’s church congregation asked Neibuhr permission to reprint that little prayer about grace, courage and wisdom he heard one Sunday. According to Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, an AA history book written by the organization’s co-founder Bill Wilson, the Serenity Prayer ended up being adopted as the unofficial mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous in the late 1950s when the organization was barely a decade old. AA history claims that their first secretary, Ruth Hock, saw the serenity prayer printed underneath a routine obituary. Hock wrote Henry S., a Washington, D.C.-based AA member and printer by profession asking if he could make some wallet size cards with the serenity prayer on it. He allegedly printed 500 prayer cards and the legacy and tradition evolved from there.

One of the definitions of alcoholism is spiritual bankruptcy. Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age also says that AA “counts the serenity prayer author among our great benefactors”. The Huffington Post asked Sifton what she would say to a room of AA members about her father’s famous words. In an e-mail response, she said, “I’d tell them that they’re a step ahead of most everyone else, since they have acknowledged the need for daily, patient, modest work in building a good life–not everyone else has.”

Niebuhr had what Sifton called “an appetite for the fray.” He also worked as a magazine editor and commented on political affairs on a regular basis during and after the war, a time where the Church was largely inactive in politics, a context that may have led to the line, “courage to change what should be changed” which is the original wording. Before bumper sticker wisdom, retweetable nuggets of wisdom and even before the Serenity Prayer, Niebuhr, a devout Missouri native once said, “The problem we often face is often choice between different kinds of inactivity rather than of choice between action and inaction.”

Shifting a person in recovery’s perspective from powerless to empowered is what Schwartz from the Realization Center notes as a key characteristic of the prayer. She told us her views of the prayer includes as it as a means of personal evaluation that helps to assess how a person in recovery can act regarding the people, places and things that often trigger a threat of relapse.

“It allows us to exhale,” says Schwartz. In those crucial moments, the granting of the serenity prayer requests becomes life saving. According to DrugRehab.org, as many as 19,000 people die of drug-related causes every year. According to AlocholicsAnnoymous.org, more than 2,000,000 people call themselves members of the unique fellowship. As a pivotal recovery practice, the Serenity Prayer is like a preventer of physical and emotional fatality. At 69 years old, the powerful petition is old enough to have a history worth telling so tell us your serenity prayer story today in the comments.

If you are looking for it, the Serenity Prayer is everywhere. The prayer is, “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.”

The Serenity Prayer is the mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery programs. Yet freedom from substance abuse is not where the prayer came from. Actually, the Serenity Prayer was composed during wartime. A 28-year-old pastor named Reinhold Niebuhr wrote it. He had the guts to ask God to help him peacefully accept what is irreversible like the past or unalterable like the actions of other people.

His daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, author of The Serenity Prayer, Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War wrote, “The Serenity Prayer addresses the inconsolable pain, loss and guilt that war inflicts on the communities that wage it; it goes to the heart of the possibilities and impossibilities of collective action for collective betterment—that is to say, to the heart of the possibilities for peace.”

At the Realization Center, an outpatient addictions treatment program in New York, the Serenity Prayer is often used to close program’s twelve step meetings. Co-owner Paula Schwartz who runs leads food addiction recovery told The Huffington Post that the Serenity Prayer “summarizes the way we need to be in the world and it recovery. It had to be divinely inspired.”

The first time the serenity prayer was spoken aloud was at the height of the war against Germany in the summer of 1943. It was a run of the mill Sunday morning service at Union Church in Heath, a farming village in a remote corner of northwestern Massachusetts where Niebhur was a seasonal pastor. Sifton told The Huffington Post that her father’s political concerns were the same as his spiritual ones. She told us they were “to pray for the strength to change unjust, illiberal, selfish policies which gave rise to war, social unrest, and economic woe; to pray for the strength to help fashion a more fair, just, and peaceful world, and to work for that end.”

Sifton, now 73 authored her book in 2003 and in 2005 she was interviewed by American Public Radio and said, “My father was a highly criticized, marginalized person who was teaching at an often derided and criticized liberal theological school in New York.”

The first report of the Serenity Prayer’s use outside church walls was in 1944 when it appeared in the Book of Prayers and Services for the Armed Forces which was published by the Federal Council of Churches after a member of Heath Union’s church congregation asked Neibuhr permission to reprint that little prayer about grace, courage and wisdom he heard one Sunday. According to Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, an AA history book written by the organization’s co-founder Bill Wilson, the Serenity Prayer ended up being adopted as the unofficial mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous in the late 1950s when the organization was barely a decade old. AA history claims that their first secretary, Ruth Hock, saw the serenity prayer printed underneath a routine obituary. Hock wrote Henry S., a Washington, D.C.-based AA member and printer by profession asking if he could make some wallet size cards with the serenity prayer on it. He allegedly printed 500 prayer cards and the legacy and tradition evolved from there.

One of the definitions of alcoholism is spiritual bankruptcy. Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age also says that AA “counts the serenity prayer author among our great benefactors”. The Huffington Post asked Sifton what she would say to a room of AA members about her father’s famous words. In an e-mail response, she said, “I’d tell them that they’re a step ahead of most everyone else, since they have acknowledged the need for daily, patient, modest work in building a good life–not everyone else has.”

Niebuhr had what Sifton called “an appetite for the fray.” He also worked as a magazine editor and commented on political affairs on a regular basis during and after the war, a time where the Church was largely inactive in politics, a context that may have led to the line, “courage to change what should be changed” which is the original wording. Before bumper sticker wisdom, retweetable nuggets of wisdom and even before the Serenity Prayer, Niebuhr, a devout Missouri native once said, “The problem we often face is often choice between different kinds of inactivity rather than of choice between action and inaction.”

Shifting a person in recovery’s perspective from powerless to empowered is what Schwartz from the Realization Center notes as a key characteristic of the prayer. She told us her views of the prayer includes as it as a means of personal evaluation that helps to assess how a person in recovery can act regarding the people, places and things that often trigger a threat of relapse.

“It allows us to exhale,” says Schwartz. In those crucial moments, the granting of the serenity prayer requests becomes life saving. According to DrugRehab.org, as many as 19,000 people die of drug-related causes every year. According to AlocholicsAnnoymous.org, more than 2,000,000 people call themselves members of the unique fellowship. As a pivotal recovery practice, the Serenity Prayer is like a preventer of physical and emotional fatality. At 69 years old, the powerful petition is old enough to have a history worth telling so tell us your serenity prayer story today in the comments.

If you are looking for it, the Serenity Prayer is everywhere. The prayer is, “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.”

The Serenity Prayer is the mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery programs. Yet freedom from substance abuse is not where the prayer came from. Actually, the Serenity Prayer was composed during wartime. A 28-year-old pastor named Reinhold Niebuhr wrote it. He had the guts to ask God to help him peacefully accept what is irreversible like the past or unalterable like the actions of other people.

His daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, author of The Serenity Prayer, Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War wrote, “The Serenity Prayer addresses the inconsolable pain, loss and guilt that war inflicts on the communities that wage it; it goes to the heart of the possibilities and impossibilities of collective action for collective betterment—that is to say, to the heart of the possibilities for peace.”

At the Realization Center, an outpatient addictions treatment program in New York, the Serenity Prayer is often used to close program’s twelve step meetings. Co-owner Paula Schwartz who runs leads food addiction recovery told The Huffington Post that the Serenity Prayer “summarizes the way we need to be in the world and it recovery. It had to be divinely inspired.”

The first time the serenity prayer was spoken aloud was at the height of the war against Germany in the summer of 1943. It was a run of the mill Sunday morning service at Union Church in Heath, a farming village in a remote corner of northwestern Massachusetts where Niebhur was a seasonal pastor. Sifton told The Huffington Post that her father’s political concerns were the same as his spiritual ones. She told us they were “to pray for the strength to change unjust, illiberal, selfish policies which gave rise to war, social unrest, and economic woe; to pray for the strength to help fashion a more fair, just, and peaceful world, and to work for that end.”

Sifton, now 73 authored her book in 2003 and in 2005 she was interviewed by American Public Radio and said, “My father was a highly criticized, marginalized person who was teaching at an often derided and criticized liberal theological school in New York.”

The first report of the Serenity Prayer’s use outside church walls was in 1944 when it appeared in the Book of Prayers and Services for the Armed Forces which was published by the Federal Council of Churches after a member of Heath Union’s church congregation asked Neibuhr permission to reprint that little prayer about grace, courage and wisdom he heard one Sunday. According to Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, an AA history book written by the organization’s co-founder Bill Wilson, the Serenity Prayer ended up being adopted as the unofficial mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous in the late 1950s when the organization was barely a decade old. AA history claims that their first secretary, Ruth Hock, saw the serenity prayer printed underneath a routine obituary. Hock wrote Henry S., a Washington, D.C.-based AA member and printer by profession asking if he could make some wallet size cards with the serenity prayer on it. He allegedly printed 500 prayer cards and the legacy and tradition evolved from there.

One of the definitions of alcoholism is spiritual bankruptcy. Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age also says that AA “counts the serenity prayer author among our great benefactors”. The Huffington Post asked Sifton what she would say to a room of AA members about her father’s famous words. In an e-mail response, she said, “I’d tell them that they’re a step ahead of most everyone else, since they have acknowledged the need for daily, patient, modest work in building a good life–not everyone else has.”

Niebuhr had what Sifton called “an appetite for the fray.” He also worked as a magazine editor and commented on political affairs on a regular basis during and after the war, a time where the Church was largely inactive in politics, a context that may have led to the line, “courage to change what should be changed” which is the original wording. Before bumper sticker wisdom, retweetable nuggets of wisdom and even before the Serenity Prayer, Niebuhr, a devout Missouri native once said, “The problem we often face is often choice between different kinds of inactivity rather than of choice between action and inaction.”

Shifting a person in recovery’s perspective from powerless to empowered is what Schwartz from the Realization Center notes as a key characteristic of the prayer. She told us her views of the prayer includes as it as a means of personal evaluation that helps to assess how a person in recovery can act regarding the people, places and things that often trigger a threat of relapse.

“It allows us to exhale,” says Schwartz. In those crucial moments, the granting of the serenity prayer requests becomes life saving. According to DrugRehab.org, as many as 19,000 people die of drug-related causes every year. According to AlocholicsAnnoymous.org, more than 2,000,000 people call themselves members of the unique fellowship. As a pivotal recovery practice, the Serenity Prayer is like a preventer of physical and emotional fatality. At 69 years old, the powerful petition is old enough to have a history worth telling so tell us your serenity prayer story today in the comments.

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