Posted by Larry Hoover on October 28, 2003, at 12:00:26
In reply to Re: Pain, Pain, My World is Pain..... » Larry Hoover, posted by Susan J on October 28, 2003, at 11:31:03
> Hey, Lar,
>
> > I can't think of a better time to apply the Serenity Prayer. What you can do, you will do. The rest, you hand over to your Higher Power.
> <<I've always had problems with that prayer....with the *wisdom* part. I don't have it. :-)Wisdom comes from experience. Making mistakes and moving on. Not dwelling on hypotheticals.
Maybe this one's more appropriate:
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
YESTERDAY--TODAY--TOMORROW
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is YESTERDAY with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back YESTERDAY. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said...YESTERDAY is gone.
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The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW with its possible adversaries, its burdens, its large promise and poor performance. TOMORROW is also beyond our immediate control.
TOMORROW'S sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds- but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in TOMORROW for it is yet unborn.
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This leaves only one day.... TODAY. Any man can fight the battle of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities.... YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW that we break down.
It is not the experience of TODAY that drives men mad-- it is remorse and bitterness for something which happened YESTERDAY and the dread of what TOMORROW may bring.LET US, THEREFORE, LIVE
BUT ONE DAY AT A TIME! ! !
> And I'm afraid with this depression stuff my belief in God has suffered a bit.
>
> > Hugs and prayers,
> > Lar
>
> Thanks. I need 'em. It's so much easier to deal with my own pain than it is to watch my brother suffer. I don't know how to help him."Accept the things I cannot change"
> I offer baby sitting, and painting his new house, but K doesn't want any of my brother's family over there right now. I've offered money, but he won't take it. I've offered to find him legal help (I don't do family law), and he did take me up on that....
"courage to change the things I can"
> Powerless. I'd give it to God if I thought He'd take it......I've been praying up a storm, but I don't have a good track record with success from prayer, I'm afraid.....
>
> S.God always takes it, IMHO. You're not letting go. Just an observation.
Lar
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