Serenity Prayer
By Reinhold Niebuhr
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3 min readNov 3, 2020
One of the poems that has really resonated with me since I first heard it back in 2006 is the serenity prayer. I remember it well, as a friend made me aware of that poem in times when the going was a bit tough.
The poem was written by the American theologist Reinhold Niebuhr. He composed the prayer in 1932–33. It quickly spread between church groups and was adopted by…