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I was going through this counseling my counselor gave me this prayer out of all the others in the group. I do not remember what the other people's issues were and why they were going through group too but for some reason to my counselor mine seemed worse.I never really took this prayer to heart until I had gotten older and I had to learn so much through my life how much I had to try to let things in life go, I was never going to change my parents. I could change myself and how I live my life. I did for so many years until my son was born.Not sure if many men know this but when women have babies, it can destroy their bodies. Yes on the outside you can see. It also destroys the inside. A big 7–10 pound baby can shift things inside the body to make room for this baby. That shifting can stay that way after the baby. Like mine.I never knew I had back problems ever since I was little. After I got the right doctor to tell me I have two discs gone already and it is deteriorating. I have spinal fluid leakage, a deformed part that tried to grow down by my pelvis to try and fix things. When we grow up in our mid-20s our bodies go through a big change.I saw this on an Egypt show. They find out how old a mummy is by the change our bodies go through. In our mid-20s our body fuses together by our pelvis. When the Egytolgiest looks at the mummy they determine the age by if it is fused together or not. Well, that is how they use to. Times and technology have changed that I think.Mine only partially fused together on one side and the other didn’t fuse at all. Started me on a long line of pain med

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ications that only got stronger and stronger and my addiction set in.I finally had the courage to change what I could, got off the pain meds, and had to know what I couldn’t change was my back and my back pain. At least not now. Maybe someday the doctors could figure out something.All through my life, I had to live by this prayer and when times got tough, I had to think of this prayer and remember what I could change and what I just had to deal with.True happiness can be right around the corner.<figure id="965c"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*Ug6ov8AD-BUmLVLYhc128w.jpeg"><figcaption>Me and my husband on our wedding day.</figcaption></figure>We all could use to remember this when times get tough in our lives.Here is the full religious prayer if you care to read the whole thing.<blockquote id="36e1">The Serenity Prayer God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can, And the 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; So that I may be reasonably happy in this life And supremely happy with Him Forever and ever in the next. Amen.</blockquote>Read more at: <a href="https://www.lords-prayer-words.com/famous_prayers/god_grant_me_the_serenity.html">https://www.lords-prayer-words.com/famous_prayers/god_grant_me_the_serenity.html</a></article></body>

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In response to challenge 4 of 52 from Dancing Elephants Press.

The photo was taken by the author of a wall hanging in my home

I swear by this. I guess it is a prayer more than a quote. It is just not the full prayer when most say it like this. This has so much meaning to me as an addict, a parent, and a family of addicts.

Back in the 6 or 7th grade, I use to go to counseling in school. I had a lot of issues not being well-liked in school and being in a house with parents of many addictions. I went to see a counselor twice a week in school. Once in a group where it was actually nice. Kids that didn’t know me and didn’t like me got to know me and like me.

So this prayer taught me my first lesson. I accepted that I couldn’t change people but with my courage of letting myself be me in the group, I had the courage to change what I could.

I had to have the courage all throughout my life to change many things in my life to try and be stronger than my parents. I was for many years before I ended up just like them.

I used and I partied a lot in my younger days, help me forget my home life, I think. Well also not knowing I had the seed planted in me in the womb. If parents use it while pregnant you can have the taste already in your body so you may already like it before you know it. This is how it becomes a hereditary thing. Hard to fight what is already there.

While I was going through this counseling my counselor gave me this prayer out of all the others in the group. I do not remember what the other people's issues were and why they were going through group too but for some reason to my counselor mine seemed worse.

I never really took this prayer to heart until I had gotten older and I had to learn so much through my life how much I had to try to let things in life go, I was never going to change my parents. I could change myself and how I live my life. I did for so many years until my son was born.

Not sure if many men know this but when women have babies, it can destroy their bodies. Yes on the outside you can see. It also destroys the inside. A big 7–10 pound baby can shift things inside the body to make room for this baby. That shifting can stay that way after the baby. Like mine.

I never knew I had back problems ever since I was little. After I got the right doctor to tell me I have two discs gone already and it is deteriorating. I have spinal fluid leakage, a deformed part that tried to grow down by my pelvis to try and fix things. When we grow up in our mid-20s our bodies go through a big change.

I saw this on an Egypt show. They find out how old a mummy is by the change our bodies go through. In our mid-20s our body fuses together by our pelvis. When the Egytolgiest looks at the mummy they determine the age by if it is fused together or not. Well, that is how they use to. Times and technology have changed that I think.

Mine only partially fused together on one side and the other didn’t fuse at all. Started me on a long line of pain medications that only got stronger and stronger and my addiction set in.

I finally had the courage to change what I could, got off the pain meds, and had to know what I couldn’t change was my back and my back pain. At least not now. Maybe someday the doctors could figure out something.

All through my life, I had to live by this prayer and when times got tough, I had to think of this prayer and remember what I could change and what I just had to deal with.

True happiness can be right around the corner.

We all could use to remember this when times get tough in our lives.

Here is the full religious prayer if you care to read the whole thing.

The Serenity Prayer God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can, And the 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; So that I may be reasonably happy in this life And supremely happy with Him Forever and ever in the next. Amen.