2017 miles Day 206

How was your Thursday?  I had a pretty productive day.  Today was a tie-up-loose-ends day.  I finished the edges and signed three paintings, cleaned weeds out of the flower beds, folded and put away laundry, then spent the afternoon beginning a new painting.  I think I'll title this one "Serenity".  The first stanza of the Serenity Prayer is well known, but the last part, not so much.  It is the last part that I want to express in this painting.

We focus and spend unnecessary energy on things we have no power over.  We fret and fuss, fume and cuss, and those things we cannot change are still the same.  

Instead, pray for Serenity ..............................

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 hardship 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.