There is a well- known Serenity Prayer by Friedrich Nietzsche and used in 12 step recovery programs that seeks to relieve us of our mental turmoil:
God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.”
What is not quoted as often as some of the rest of the prayer:
“Accepting as God did this sinful world just as it is….”
Here is what we worry about. We are worried that the things we can’t change will be too detrimental, damaging or disastrous. We may trust in God but we are not sure we are rowing to shore fast enough to escape the storm. Usually the categories of what we worry about are
W what W when W where
We may worry about what is going to happen, when something is going to happen, or where it might happen.
But the two big Ws we usually worry about are Who and Why.
We worry about the Who … Continue reading