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Oh, God, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what can not be helped, and insight to know the one from the other. [4] The prayer was also quoted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch later that month. [5] Substantial quotes from the prayer were also printed in two Atlanta newspapers that month. [6] [7]
The Good News: When you are feeling tired and sad, you can ask God to give you strength and comfort through His teachings and promises. Woman's Day/Getty Images Lamentations 3:19-22
[3] Milton himself "recognized the pastoral as one of the natural modes of literary expression," employing it throughout "Lycidas" in order to achieve a strange juxtaposition between death and the remembrance of a loved one. [4] The poem itself begins with a pastoral image of laurels and myrtles, "symbols of poetic fame; as their berries are ...
The poem itself is a plea addressed directly to God, who is invoked in his Trinitarian form ("three-person'd God"). The speaker does not suffer from an internal problem here, unlike in a number of Donne's other Holy Sonnets (such as I am a little world made cunningly or O, to vex me ); he is sure of what he needs and how to reach his end goal.
The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest. Reference to the wind and snow ...
And that you give them to me, my God, forever So that I am always sure to have them. For I will not always have the courage to ask. Give me, my God, what you have. Give me what others do not want. But also give me courage And strength and faith. Because only you alone can give, my God, What I cannot expect only from myself.
The original author of this poem is unknown. There are several variations on this poem. Chris Farley (from Saturday Night Live and Tommy Boy) was known to have carried this prayer with him in his wallet. [1] [2] It commonly includes the following four verses: [3] [1]
'My heart is broken, yet must understand.'