"Twenty-Five Words: How the Serenity Prayer Can Save Your Life" by Barb Rogers

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. —The Serenity Prayer. These twenty-five words are the bedrock prayer of the worldwide Alcoholics Anonymous movement, a movement that has saved and improved millions of lives.

(PRWEB) March 12, 2005 -- When Barb Rogers first heard this prayer a quarter of a century ago, she could scarcely credit it and hadnt the ears to believe it. It all begins with meee, meee, mee," she writes. As in: Why is God doing all these things to meee? Why doesnt God understand that I know whats best for mee and do what I ask him to? Why are other people doing all these things to mee?

Well, as it turns out, its not all about mee." In Twenty-Five Words: How the Serenity Prayer Can Save Your Life (Red Wheel, March 2005) Rogers tells her story and invites readers to take a tough, loving look at their own. There are some things we should accept, period. We shouldnt take them personally. We shouldnt whine or scream or go off on a tear. Then there are some things we can change, and we should probably take a look at those as well. And the real trick, the one that comes from years of saying the prayer and letting its healing principles sink in, is knowing the difference.

Once we make room in our lives, letting go and letting God, all kinds of things can happen. Barb Rogers own story starts in the depths of alcoholism, with deceased children, broken marriages, lost jobs. Sure there were reasons, but reasons didnt change anything; the Serenity Prayer did.

Barb Rogers is a professional costume designer and author of two costuming books. Shes also written books for the Just Try This Series, including Feng Shui in a Day, Simply Happy Every Day, and Pray for Today, all urgent care for souls in need. She lives in Yarnell, Arizona.

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