求平静

 

 

 

译／蔡选青

 

 

 

神啊，赐我以平静，

使我能接受我所不能改变的事；

赐我以刚强，

使我能改变我所能改变的事；

更赐我以智慧，

让我能在二者之间作一清楚的选择。

 

让我珍惜你所赐予的每一天，

品尝其间的每一刻；

也让我视苦难为入平安之路，

学主耶稣的样式，

寄居这堕落的世界

不染也不贪。

让我坚信

只要将我自己降服在你的旨意下，

一切我所遭遇的

都有你的美意。

这样

在今生我可以享受你所赐的喜乐，

在永生则与你同享那属天的福乐。

阿门！。

 

 

Pray for Serenity

 

God, grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change.

The 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 hardship as a pathway to peace;

taking, as Jesus did.

This sinful world as it is,

not as I would have it;

trusting that you will make all things right

if I surrender to your will;

so that I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen

 

by Reinhold Niebuhr