My New Mantra

It's kind of like the Pledge of Allegiance: I've heard it over and over in my life and probably could have recited most of it. But one day you really think about the words and suddenly they mean something. They mean EVERYTHING.

That's what happened to me recently when I came across The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr. Now, these words hang in my bathroom, right over my scale. I read them every day and am trying very hard to live by them. I felt like they were written just for me.

Anyone who is a recovering codependent should probably keep these words close by at all times.

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.