The Serenity Prayer

It's been two weeks since my last posting. I guess I haven't had anything to say. A good friend passed away yesterday, and his family shared with me the full version of the Serenity Prayer to be read at his memorial service. I've been familiar with this quote for many years, and now with this writing, I guess it is obvious that I didn't pay enough attention to everything that Reinhold Niebuhr wrote for here is the full version:

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 hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful 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.

Amen.

Rienhold Neibuhr (1892-1971)

Grace and peace, with a song in my heart

SoulSongWriter

Election Results

It's almost lunch time, 11:45 a.m. on November 4, and I am ready to be the first to publicly declare a winner in today's election. The winner is...

The American People!

At 7:30 a.m. this morning the church parking lot was full. Why? Because a polling place is located in the lobby of the apartments behind our building. The parking lot has filled and emptied all morning long. I voted down the street at the location of another church that held a polling place. The line went out the door and down the sidewalk. It took thirty-five minutes to vote. Where else but in America is there such a demonstration of Freedom and the right of the people to Choose leadership! I truly wish the turnout was this good on every election, local and national. Could it be that our greatest threat is complacency?

In my young life, this was my tenth time to have the privilege to vote in a presidential election. I asked the couple behind me in line, how many presidential elections have you voted in? "I don't know", she said, "Eisenhour, 1952 was our first election." I thought to myself, that was just a few years before I was born.

I simply want to lift up and accentuate the positive today, that even with all of the bad news, there remains some good news. People of America, we all won the election today. We all have the right to vote on our governing leadership.

Thank you Lord, for letting me live in a corner of the world where my opinion officially counts.

Grace and peace with a song in my heart,
SongWriter