Serenity Prayer

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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.

 Reinhold Niebuhr

BEST TIME TO PRAY

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"When life knocks you down on your knees, this is the best time to pray."

     This quote is so common I know everybody heard of this since their childhood. It was in my elementary years that I heard of these inspiring words. I was pure then and full of hope. When you are pure and hopeful every inspiring words are a doctrine you follow. Unfortunately, growing up has it's challenges that sometimes pushes aside your purity and hopefulness. And the worst challenge of all is time. You become so busy you forgot where you began earlier in life. You tend to forget your priorities and your sense of "humaness". It takes for other people to knock you down before you realize you are out of bounds. You ask why when you know something is out of balance here. And the simple things, forgotten things come clearer... 

Life Quote of the Day - Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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You rush from one extreme to another.  The only true way to live in this world, constituted just as we are, is to make all our employments subserve the one great end and aim of existence, namely, to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.  But in order to do this we must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform.  Recreation we must have.  Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Elizabeth Prentiss

Life Quote of the Day - Friday, November 18, 2011

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If you have a positive attitude and constantly
strive to give your best effort, eventually
you will overcome your immediate problems
and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Pat Riley

Life Quote of the Day - Thursday, November 17, 2011

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life Quote of the Day - Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste.  The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

- Arnold Bennett

Life Quote of the Day - Monday, November 7, 2011

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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course.  Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.  It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Gustav Jung