God, gwant me the serenity to accept the things that I can't change.......to change the things that I can.........and the god damn wisdumb for once in my god foresaken life to know the fucking difference. My mother had a poster in our living room resembling this remark...hehe. I use to read it and reflect on what it had to say as a child. It was a beautiful poster, a nice golden parchment, and the text was old english, I thought it was really old from the times of Kings and Queens. I was wrong of course, it's a fairly contemporary saying written by Reinhold Niebuhr and embraced by recovering alcoholics everywhere. Thanks to Bill W when a alcoholic can't see past his problems and reaches for a drink, your taught to recite this in your head, it's minute to minute, hour to hour, kind of like a Catholic Preist at a day care, all sweaty and counting the rosary at warp speed. I myself say it right before I go to sleep at night, I'm not into praying to assorted Gods & Dieties, I'm the one in control of my destiny, I just like to recite it as a reminder, a boost when I'm down, an ego stabilizer when I'm full of myself. It's made a difference in my life, sober and drunk these words hold true. It's the smallest and the simplest things that carry us through difficult times, so I suggest that everyone find one small thing and hold on to it.....just becareful that small thing isn't attached to anything or anybody...LOL. ;)