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COMPLETE SERENITY PRAYER



grant me the

to accept the things
I cannot change

to change the
things I can
and the

to know the difference

Living ONE DAY AT A TIME
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship 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

By Reinhold Neibuhr

"Serenity Prayer"   by Reinhold Neibuhr

"WE ARE GIVEN THE BLESSING OF SHARING THIS PASSAGE THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, NEVER TOO FAR APART THAT OUR HANDS DO NOT TOUCH, FOR WHEREVER WE MAY WANDER - WE GO WITH LOVE!!
by Diane Westlake.

On the Loss of a Loved One

Their Journey's Just Begun

Don't think of them as gone away,
their journey has just begun.
Life holds so many facets,
this earth is only one.

Just think of them as resting
from the sorrows and the tears,
in a place of warmth and comfort,
where there are no days and years.

Think of how they must be wishing
that we could know, today,
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.

And think of them as living
in the hearts of those they touched
for nothing loved is ever lost
and they were loved so much.

Anonymous






 

The Mention of Her Name

"The mention of my child's name
May bring tears to my eyes,
But it never fails to bring
Music to my ears.

If you are really my friend,
Let me hear the beautiful music
of her name.
It soothes my broken heart
And sings to my soul."

Author Unknown

The above two poems, and full text Serenity Prayer courtesy of Lady Care of LOTH

Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 10:13:37 -0700 From: DaKara

Subject: A special letter....... *S*

Letter from Fra Giovanni

I am your friend and my love for you goes deep.
There is nothing I can give you which you have not got,
but there is much, very much, that,
while 'I' cannot give it, you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts
find rest in today. Take heaven!
No peace lies in the future which is
not hidden in this present little instant.
Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow.
Behind it, yet within our reach is joy.

There is radiance and glory in the darkness
could we but see - and to see we have only to look.
I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver, but we,
judging its gifts by the covering,
cast them away as ugly, or heavy or hard.

Remove the covering and you will find beneath it
a living splendor,woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
Welcome it, grasp it, touch the angel's hand
that brings it to you.

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty,
believe me, that angel's hand is there,
the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence.
Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys.
They, too, conceal diviner gifts.

Life is so full of meaning and purpose,
so full of beauty - beneath its covering
that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.
Courage, then, to claim it, that is all.
But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all
pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

And so, at this time, I greet you.
Not quite as the world sends greetings,
but with profound esteem and with the prayer
that for you now and forever, the day breaks,
and the shadows flee away.
 

letter written by Fra Giovanni,1513

[Time truely doesn't have any time or space.....
words of long ago fit our present day *S* Blessings!
DaKara, for some of you... your sister in LOTH]
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