Serenity Prayer in AA Literature
Where can I find a copy of the serenity prayer; is it in any AA books?
An abbreviated version The Serenity Prayer can be found toward the end of the discussion on Step Three in the 12x12 (
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
This is the full text as commonly accredited to American, Protestant theologian Karl Paul
Reinhold Niebuhr written in the early 1930s:
SERENITY PRAYER
God grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And the Wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking as He did, this World as it is,
Not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
And Supremely happy with Him,
Forever in the next.
See this
Wikipedia article for more information.
