The Serenity Prayer

By Reinhold Niebuhr

God,

give me grace
to accept with
serenity

 the things
that cannot be
changed,

Courage
to change the things
which should be
changed,

and the Wisdom
to distinguish

the one from
the other.

Living
one day at a time,

Enjoying
one moment at
a time,

Accepting hardship
as a pathway
to peace,

Taking,
as Jesus did,

This
sinful world
as it is,

Not
as I would
have it,

Trusting
that You will make
all things
right,

If
I surrender to
Your will,

So that
I may be reasonably
happy in this
life,

And
supremely happy
with You

forever in the next.

Amen.

평온함을 비는 기도

라인홀드 니버

하느님!

제가
바꿀 수 없는
것들은

그대로
받아들일 수
있는

평온함을,

바꿀 수 있는 것들은
바꿀 수 있는

용기를,

그리고
이 둘 사이의
차이를 알 수 있는

지혜를
허락하소서.

하루를 살아도
한껏 살게
하시며

한순간을 살아도
실컷 즐기게
하소서.

시련을
평화에 이르는
통로로 받아들이게
하시며,

죄 많은 세상을
제 방식대로가
아니라

주님의 뜻에
제가 순종하기만
하면

주님께서
세상만사를
온전한 길로 이끄실
것이라는

믿음을
갖게 하소서.

그리하여
저로 하여금
이 세상에서

적당히
행복하게 하시며,

저 세상에서
주님과 더불어

가장 행복하게
하소서.

아멘.

-라인홀드 니버-
미국 신학자 (1892∼1971)

***

The Serenity Prayer
is a prayer written by
the American theologian
Reinhold Niebuhr
(1892–1971).

It is commonly quoted as:

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’s prayer
originally
asked for

courage first,

and specifically
for changing things
that must be
changed,

not things that
simply can be
changed:

Father,
give us courage
to change what must be
altered,

serenity
to accept what cannot
be helped,

and the insight
to know the one from
the other.

Niebuhr composed
the prayer in 1932–33.

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.

Niebuhr
used it in a 1943
sermon

at
Heath Evangelical
Union Church

in Heath,
Massachusetts.

It also
appeared in
a sermon of Niebuhr’s
in the 1944

Book
of Prayers
and Services for
the Armed Forces,

while
Niebuhr first
published it in 1951
in a magazine
column.

Early versions
of the prayer are
given no title,

but by 1955,

it was
being called
the Serenity Prayer
in publications of

Alcoholics Anonymous.

**

The most quoted 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.”

“하느님!

제가
바꿀 수 없는
것들은

그대로
받아들일 수
있는

평온함을,

바꿀 수 있는 것들은
바꿀 수 있는

용기를,

그리고
이 둘 사이의
차이를 알 수 있는

지혜를
허락하소서. “

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