Serenity Prayer
by Lyric Lucas
Title
Serenity Prayer
Artist
Lyric Lucas
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas Digital Mix
Description
The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer written by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr[1][2] (1892–1971). The best-known form is:
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.
Niebuhr used various versions of the prayer widely in sermons as early as 1934.[1] The prayer spread rapidly, often without attribution to Niebuhr, through church groups in the 1930s and 1940s and was adopted and popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs. The Serenity Prayer appeared in a sermon of Niebuhr's as part of the 1944 A Book of Prayers and Services for the Armed Forces,[1] while Niebuhr himself first published it in 1951 in a magazine column
. I have digitally enhanced my painting and added script to create this image.
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November 2nd, 2019
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