The Serenity Prayer: Are You Familiar With It?

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This is an interesting prayer that has been named the "Serenity Prayer." "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." How often do we concern ourselves with things that we cannot change, wishing, for instance, that our life was different from the way it is. We must separate the things that we can't change from the things we CAN change. You can't change your features, that is, without plastic surgery, but you can change your appearance. Sometimes, just a little make-up, a nice hair cut or a lovely outfit can change our appearance. Amazingly enough, those things can also change our ATTITUDE about the way we see ourselves. When I dress up and put on make-up and style my hair early in the day, I have a whole different attitude than when I lounge around in dumpy clothes all day and don't bother to fix my hair and make-up. I don't even want to answer the door, if I don't look decent and sometimes I don't. So... I'm making more of an effort to get up and get my look together early in the day, so if someone does ring the doorbell, I'm not ashamed to open the door. OR if someone calls and wants me to meet them for lunch, HEY, I'm already dressed and ready to go. I want to be ready for anything. What do you think?