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Posted on August 19, 2016

Alcoholics Know How To Pray

I recently ran across a copy of the prayer that Alcoholics Anonymous groups use in their meetings. The first stanza is the most familiar to the general public, but the whole prayer, originally written by Dr. Rheinhold Niebuhr, has become a salve to my chapped soul. I have used it repeatedly in my own conversations …

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Posted on January 27, 2013

Lessons of a Loser (part four)

Alcoholics Know How To Pray A while back I ran across the prayer often used by Alcoholics Anonymous groups. Anne Lamott calls it a "Greatest Hits prayer" and posits an alternative to the opening part:  "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can, …

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