I hear your pain Michael - at my advanced age of 68(am I really saying that?) I’ve learned to, as Reinhold Niebuhr described it in his famous prayer, “to accept the things that I cannot change and to change those that I can with the courage to do so.” And here is the key phrase,” accepting that hardship is the pathway to peace...” I read the Serenity Prayer each morning to ground me in what is essential to living according to His word and my ever changing reality. I’m lucky perhaps, to have the freedom to think this way - but I wish I had had this superpower at 48.
The outside world has thrown me countless curveballs either directly or in the face of the society that I lived in....I survived, prospered when I didn’t have the right to and am left here, wondering at fact of my contentment while the out known world spins around me.
I hear your pain Michael - at my advanced age of 68(am I really saying that?) I’ve learned to, as Reinhold Niebuhr described it in his famous prayer, “to accept the things that I cannot change and to change those that I can with the courage to do so.” And here is the key phrase,” accepting that hardship is the pathway to peace...” I read the Serenity Prayer each morning to ground me in what is essential to living according to His word and my ever changing reality. I’m lucky perhaps, to have the freedom to think this way - but I wish I had had this superpower at 48.
The outside world has thrown me countless curveballs either directly or in the face of the society that I lived in....I survived, prospered when I didn’t have the right to and am left here, wondering at fact of my contentment while the out known world spins around me.