Serenity Prayer: Fully Re-Designed 2012 Model

Posted by Dr. John on 1/23/12 • Categorized as Blog, Culture War, Featured, Personal, Psychology, Religion

God grant me the serenity  to hide from the things I cannot change,  the courage to avoid the things I can, and the wisdom to know I am helpless against the machine.

To live one day at a time like everything is just swell;  To send me a Rolex so I can really enjoy one moment at a time;   To learn to avoid and run from hardships as the pathway to peace;  And not taking, as He did, this sinful world  as it is, but imagining it as I would have it;  Trusting that He will make all things right instead of me trying to do it.   That I may be unbelievably and screamingly happy in this life  and even more super duper happy with Him in the next.

Amen.

Like you , LK…I too am done! Toasted. Fatigued, infuriated, and feeling helpless. A voice in a void that, unless I say something completely idiotic, hateful and ruthless enough to go viral on You Tube, rises like a silent cloud to nothingness. A voice that on Tuesday had so much more meaning as it screamed GOAL!!!! while my wife and I sat in hockey bliss, munching $9.00 fries and $10.00 beers. A voice that delivers joy and pure devotion as it whispers “I love you,” to my sleeping wife. Otherwise, a voice that is basically unnecessary.

We – more-so you – rant weekly about all the horrors, cruelties, political gaffs and corruption, illegal and un-winnable wars, genocide, and on and on and on. And yes, it’s a good thing to enlighten, to make people aware. But even too much awareness bloats the psyche. Like a therapy session that lasts longer than an hour because the brain shuts down from too much information, enlightenment and awareness become so much white noise, or worse, crying wolf.

And so, at least for now, I am washing myself clean of any and all responsibility of everything and anything that goes on outside my immediate circle of loved ones. I imagine this will last for two or three days, but right now, it feels really, really good!