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A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.
The Good News: You do not even need to say a word to know that the Lord is fighting your hardships for you and alongside you. Woman's Day/Getty Images Philippians 4:6
“Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.” “Ask for what you want and be ...
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” — Stephen Chbosky, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” “We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are ...
The Gestalt prayer is a 56-word statement by psychotherapist Fritz Perls that is taken as a classic expression of Gestalt therapy as a way of life model of which Perls was a founder. The key idea of the statement is Gestalt practice : the focus on living in response to one's own needs, without projecting onto or taking introjects from others.
The text does not specify who exactly the "Gentiles" mentioned are, though pagan prayers to Baal and other gods are mentioned in the Old Testament. France notes that in this era, Gentile prayer was portrayed as repeated incantations that had to be perfectly recited, but where the spirit and understanding of the prayer were secondary. [2]
Christian prayer is an important activity in Christianity, and there are several different forms used for this practice. [1] Christian prayers are diverse: they can be completely spontaneous, or read entirely from a text, such as from a breviary, which contains the canonical hours that are said at fixed prayer times.
A magistral way of meeting God for the Orthodox, [31] the Jesus Prayer does not harbor any secrets in itself, nor does its practice reveal any esoteric truths. [32] Instead, as a hesychastic practice, it demands setting the mind apart from rational activities and ignoring the physical senses for the experiential knowledge of God.