The Happy Warrior Meets the Japanese Serenity Prayer | 禱 寧 寧靜

Humbly Pray for Peace

But Diligently Prepare for War

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Japanese Serenity Prayer

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静かで穏やかな：次の言葉の意味は？

静かな祈りは次のようになります-もう変えられない出来事を、神は静かに穏やかに受け入れてくださった。

勇気を持って変えようとするとき、知恵がその違いを教えてくれます。

その日その日を生きて行きます。

平安の路を行くようにをも受けいれます困難;

彼が言ったように、事実深い罪の世であっても、自分の手には入れません。

神の御心に自分自身を明け渡した時、かれは全ての事を益として下さるから;

道理にかなった私の人生を幸せと思い、にあってはこの上もなく幸せなのですこれからもまた永遠に。アーメン神。

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Original 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
-Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr
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|...day 75/90 and peace is just around the corner!  Ninety days is what my sponsor lovingly 'suggested' I do, and that's really all I have left in me.  That room is so selfish they would not piss on a newcomer if they were on fire.

One of the many  wonderful revelations I've been given by suffering in that 1st step clubhouse is how precious AA and it's Twelve Traditions truly are.  How wonderfully lucky I've been - to have been given the worlds best teachers, and to grow up in AA meetings a stone's throw from Bill W.'s house in Brooklyn, and attend some of the oldest, most sincere and stalwart meetings in the world.

The most loving thing my sponsor ever said was 'I'd rather step on your toes than stand on your grave'.  Honesty hurts, folks.  It's no fun to be told your an a**hole - especially if it's true.  I am so grateful for God, AA and my teachers. The Twelve Traditions are the glue that hold AA together, and what that clubhouse teaches me is that if you have not done the steps, it is impossible to have any earthly idea what even the First Tradition is all about, because if you have not moved past step one, you are, by definition of the second step, quite literally insane.

Two hard lessons I learned growing up in Brooklyn:  1) Never drink in a bar called 'Mom's', and 2) Never argue with crazy people.  Let them stay on the first step - I smell more.

Suffering is good for the soul.  In the past 75 days, I've come to the deepest cut and understanding of our Book thus far, I've researched and applied a lesser translation of the Tao Te Ching into the Twelve Concepts, and I translated the Art of War into the Concepts for World Service, all while people talk about anything other than recovery from Alcoholism.

I am very grateful for that room, but if I have to stay there much longer, I, too, shall become an animal.  There is more to life for me than just eeking by.

I smell more.

God bless us all, every one.

COG, 1st Cl.|