Serenity....

My thoughts since 9/11 have been directed towards inner peace, and peace within our world. Looking for insightful passages and anything that can give me something valid to find exactly what I'm looking for, I found myself focusing on the following... Ofcourse we all have our own ways of finding inner peace, but this is mine.

Many things happen in life that aren't fair - illness, injury, death, for example. Accepting those situations means focusing our strength and energy on releasing ourselves to God and letting him see us through them rather than letting anger, bitterness, sadness, and self-pity hold us in their grasp.

The Center of Serenity

Please just look around you and see how much heartbreak there is. It does not have to be that way... We notice the grumpy people; we notice the helpless and fragile ones. Hear their silent plight. Listen and feel their pain from the deep recesses of your heart. Ask your soul what it is that you can do to change this. When we focus less on “our stuff” and start giving a little more love suddenly life takes on a totally new appearance and has a new flavour. There is no “them” and “us” anymore. We are all one.

"Patience"

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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…
Living one day at a time,
Accepting hardships as the
pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this world as it is,
not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make
all things right
If I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably
happy in this life,
And supremely happy with Him,
forever in the next.

Reinhold Neibuhr, 1926

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
~~ Helen Keller