Recently I finished reading the book: The Wisdom to Know the Difference by Eileen Flanigan, a Quaker woman. It is a book about the Serenity prayer:
"God grant me the courage to change the things I can and the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change and the wisdom to know the difference."
One of the things that is very clear to me is that we are all "bent" one way or the other by our childhood experience. Some of us always strive to change things, other anticipate accepting the situation as it is and "letting go" that which distresses them. But for the most part on either side of this fence I think we do it as a secular activity. By this I mean I think we do what we do as a pattern, barely considered, and certainly with no thought for the Divine Actor.
What if instead we were checking in with the Creator? What if we learned to routinely hold the events of our life and are responses to them up to the guidance of the Holy One? What if we really asked The Holy One to show us when we needed to take action and give us the needed courage to do so, or to show us that we needed to be still and find peace and contentment with what is? What if the Wisdom to know the difference is not something that our little brains figure out but something that the All Mighty shows us?
