Secular revisions to the serenity Prayer.
I made some edits to make this prayer useful as a serene pledge.
Right now, I can serenely accept what I can not change;
Courageously change what I can,
And by this better tell the difference.
Right now, I can come back to this day: this moment.
If it is hard, I can half smile, and with compassion, accept hardship as the pathway to peace.
If I have leapt to judgement, I can step back to the path;
To the world as it is, not as I would have it.
I can trust in what may come if I continue on this path:
So that I may be reasonably happy in my life,
And share this happiness with the life beyond me.
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Had to double check I read this in Agnostics and not AA. (Iām one week shy of 6 years sober)
SarahSiddons
Level 6
Aug 21, 2019
2
Feel free to share it if an AA person does not like the religious version.
@LucasfromGR sadly the āGod thingā keeps people who need the help and support AA has to offer away.I relied on it heavily for my first 90 days. These days my path to sobriety is weed/yoga/meditation, and solitude in nature. I lived in the middle of Yellowstone for 6 months, 100 miles from any entrance. Yellowstone healed me in ways words cannot describe.
@SarahSiddons there you go !!!
i applaud your
transformation and grit.i am 4yrs sober.I have gratitude
always,thank you for thinking outside the "box".You are a
shinning example!ā¾
THE SENILITY PRAYER:
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
The eyesight to tell the difference.
Normanbites
Level 7
Aug 20, 2019
2
Jefferson would admire your efforts Iām sure.
JacobMeyers
Level 6
Aug 20, 2019
1
I like it! It's very humanistic, fostering strength from inside oneself, rather than a source outside oneself. Good job!
This edited version could help the many who struggle with trying to pretend that an outside source is what's giving them strength.
Just like Dorothy and all in the Wizard of Oz, the powers have always been within us, we just need to recognize and exercise the willpower, courage, serenity, compassion toward ourselves and our surroundings.
Julie808
Level 8
Aug 19, 2019
2
I'm okay with a daily commitment to the goals of the said prayer, but I don't understand the need for prayer. There is no one to listen.
onthefire
Level 7
Aug 19, 2019
2
Yeah, thats why i changed the prayer to a pledge, an affirmation of how to proceed through struggle without some magic man listening.
@LucasfromGR
Yes!
It reminds me of Al-anon, from time to time, too which I have worked with others in need from those who did not understand the harm they were inflicting upon onthers, especially the ones they supposedly labeled as love ones!!!
This might be out of line, but:
There is a tv commercial about a little girl asking why her mother washes the dishes before putting the dishes into the dishwasher?
The little girl states then what is the dishwasher for?
One must ask what is a prayer for secular or not!!!!
of-the-mountain
Level 9
Aug 19, 2019
2
Not out of line at all. Thats why i revised it and called it a pledge. An affirmation of struggle and how to proceed that does not require an external magic. Did you like the pledge?
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