toldailytopic: Since coming to TOL I have learned that...

[Buzzword]

I'm learning just how few things are worth arguing about.

A side-effect of that education has been learning how great it can be (offline) to be close friends with someone with whom I disagree on most spiritual matters.

 

[Psalmist]

From the Psalmist I have learned the meaning of serenity.

:e4e: Your kind comment brought to mind . . .​

Serenity Prayer
By Reinhold Niebuhr

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.



Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be
consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive —
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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