The Serenity Prayer (Yep... It's Rant Time!)

Today's thought...

The Serenity Prayer

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 hardships 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.

                                                                                     --Reinhold Niebuhr

Roger's Caveat:  (A precautionary statement, and content warning)  


The reading is about to get hairy, but not profane. In my defense, I don't mean to offend anyone who subscribes to this prayer, has been helped by this prayer, or just plain old prays, knows Mr Niebuhr, anyone in AA or any other 12 step program.  And finally, I didn't set out with the intention of personally offending anyone that I'm about to piss off!
However, if you do get pissed off... DEAL WITH IT!



Roger's Rant: (Regarding the Serenity Prayer)


Blah! Blah! Blah! Blah!

Screw that shit!

Reads to me like "Be happy you're sheep and not the barn yard dog!"

As a whole, I believe that the more we screw up, the more we learn. If the great inventors and visionaries like; Ford, Edison, Franklin, Jobs, Gates, Englebart, Gutenberg, etc., lived in a decision bubble, paralyzed by wondering what can and can't be changed, and waited for crap to happen, we'd still be eating cold bugs naked in a dark wet cave.

Get out on that limb and jump with your eyes open! Listen, if we wait for God to decide for us what is right, wrong, changeable, and permanent, we'll get very old, very fast, albeit safely and boringly miss a dump truck load of opportunity. I'm choosing to grab as much of life as I can. Sure I continue to hose up, and probably at the same pace I have for my entire life, which equates to a life time of lot of screw ups, but on the flip side, its a life time of adventure!

I say "Speak up!" if you have something to say! Take risk and be the agent of change! We're only here in this life for 100 years if we are extremely lucky. Make waves and have a ball riding them! I got a sneaky suspicion that when I die, right after I "high five" old Saint Pete and just before I get my choice of "Never Need-a-Washing," white, skivvy-less, gowns to wear, I'm going to get a couple of questions from the commanding officer of heaven... What did you do with your life's time? Who did you help? What are you most proud of?

I'm planning on having one heck of a list to pick from! I'm doing my best not to have any "Wish I'd a done's" on my death bed... that is if I get the privilege to die in bed.  I think I'd rather spend my last moments of this life fighting for my life as I fall off a sail boat in the middle of some raging ocean! Or getting trampled by a wild heard of water Buffalo, because the snap of my camera spooked the heard. I'd even expect to get abducted by aliens only to befriend them, while I secretly steal the secret to warp drive and eventually escape from the ship, only to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry!

Either way, we all meet up in the end. Some of us will be happy. Some of us will be content. However there will be very few of us sitting on the "Group W Bench" showing the bruises of living life, yet we will have permanent smiles, messed up hair, a slight limp, and a few of stains on our almost pure white gowns... 

Roger's Philosophy: 

LIFE IS THE GREATEST ADVENTURE!  Love Hard! Play Hard! Work Hard! Study Hard! Help as many people and animals as you can! I don't have to understand, or agree with other people, but I have to respect their views, their stuff, and their journey through this life! And I'll always smile and say "Hello!"

I'm done now!

Campy Out!