的意义Serenity Prayer in 12-Step Recovery

Brilliant in its simplicity, the Serenity Prayer is one of the key spiritual tools used by virtually all12步恢复支持组. The following is the adaptation that's generally used in these groups:

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.

平安祈祷的意义

有时被称为“AA接受祈祷”，宁静祈祷通常是背诵在几乎所有12步小组会议开始，并在许多会议，以及在结束。这12个步骤组的示例包括匿名戒酒者(AA),Narcotics Anonymous（NA），可卡因匿名组织（CA），Al-Anon/Alateen, and Marijuana Anonymous, among dozens of others. It has also become a part of mainstream culture, finding its way into movies, books, memes, and home decorations.

因为有那么多人在绝望中寻求和平、力量和智慧，这些简单的话语，在他们理解上帝的时候，对上帝低语着，已经见证了他们度过了最黑暗的时刻。他们开始相信，祈祷所表达的品质只能来自一种比自己更强大的力量。因为他们相信，他们找到了宁静、勇气和智慧，他们从自己之外的某个地方寻求，去面对另一种情况、另一步和另一天。

历史

Although millions of people both in and out of the recovery community have been helped and strengthened by the Serenity Prayer's simple lines, few are aware the first stanza was written by Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr. He was an American theologian, philosopher, and longtime dean and professor of Applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

There has been much controversy over when and by whom the Serenity Prayer was penned, but it looks like the debate is over. Though Reinhold Niebuhr is now undisputedly the author, it's unclear exactly when he wrote the well-known and beloved prayer, but it seems to have been around 1933.

匿名戒酒者(AA) adopted the prayer in 1941 when an AA member saw it inThe New York Herald Tribuneand asked the AA secretary at the time, Ruth Hock, to see if it could be printed in distributable cards. She wrote to an AA member who was a printer in Washington, D.C., sent him the clipping, and asked him how much it would cost to print up some wallet-size copies. The printer liked the prayer so much ("I can’t recall any sentence that packs quite the wallop that that does," he said), he sent 500 cards to her for free, and the prayer became a permanent part of AA's history.

The Complete Serenity Prayer

Here is the unabridged Serenity Prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971):

上帝，赐予我们恩典，让我们平静地接受
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
从一个到另一个。

Living one day at a time,
一刻一刻地享受，
接受苦难作为通往和平之路，
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
在未来的日子里与你永远快乐。

Amen.