this is the stuff.....

lately, i have been really stressed, what with kevin in the hospital, my class starting, siobhan being sick.....life in general....feeling like i was pulled in a thousand different directions at once, and feeling like i was THE one that was being looked to for the answers....probably less real than imagined, but being the wife and mother it was also real.

i have strung, on the lace valance inner curtains, in my cottage, crystal prisms--like pollyannna did....it bathes my house with rainbows in the morning and also in the evening with reminders to attempt to play the glad game more often--to try to get ahold of all that stuff and put it in proper perspective.  the serenity prayer sure does help me to remember to do that....it is not only for those in AA ya know LOL


The Serenity Prayer


God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful 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.

Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr