The Serenity Prayer

This is the complete version of the Serenity Prayer, used in an edited form by Alcoholics Anonymous and other Twelve-Step groups. It is credited to Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) although he doesn't remember ever writing it:

God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
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,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

It forms an appropriate summary for a good position for me to have on life being "as it should be."