“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.”
The first known appearance of this short prayer
is in a 1943 sermon by the American Christian theologian Reinhold Niebuhr
(1892-1971). It is popularly known
as the Serenity Prayer.
Recently, I found a copy of a parody of the Serenity Prayer called the Senility Prayer.
As an aging person myself, I found the prayer to be amusing. I am aware that it is not a Christian
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.”
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