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Serenity, Peace, Wisdom

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.  How many times have you ran across the Serenity prayer? 1? 2? 50? 100 times? I know I see it every time I pick up my journal.  Yet, how many times have you stopped to evaluate and reflect on that prayer? I’m pretty sure never.  Well, the same goes for me, that is until the night the Lord really opened up my eyes.  It was about 12:15am when I picked up my journal for the first time in a week. Before I opened the tab I skimmed over the words on the cover, however, something happened as I did. All of a sudden the words started shifting, and I was suddenly reading past those familiar words.  First it began with the word Serenity. We know that the root word is serene (yes i used my teacher voice when i was typing that) and we know that serene means calm or peaceful. With that knowledge I switched out the word