who wrote the serenity poem?

Question

who wrote this poem

Answer 1

I think you mean "The Serenity Prayer."

The Serenity Prayer
by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)Complete, Unabridged, Original Version.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

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.

Note About The Serenity Prayer's Real Author

You'll find many references online to some not being sure who really wrote the above prayer, some claiming that Reinhold Niebuhr was not actually the author. Many have researched it, including including trying to find out if it even goes back to 500 A.D. Despite all the research, though, it still goes back to Niebuhr being the author.
The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses, by Reinhold Niebuhr.

It certainly appears that Reinhold Niebuhr did indeed write The Serenity Prayer. Niebuhr himself discusses the prayer and how it came about it in his book, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses. You can read the page yourself via amazon.com here if you wish: The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses, page 251. Niebuhr states,

”... The embarrassment, particularly, was occasioned by the incessant correspondence about a prayer I had composed years before, which the old Federal Council of Churches had used and which later was printed on small cards to give to soldiers. Subsequently Alcoholics Anonymous adopted it as its official prayer. The prayer reads: 'God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to dintinguish the one from the other.' ...”

The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War, by Elisabeth Sifton.

In addition, Niebuhr's daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, wrote an entire book about her father's prayer, The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War, that explores the circumstances around which her father wrote this prayer, the wide range of versions of this prayer, and the real essence of the prayer's meaning. She quotes The Serenity Prayer on page 277. NPR (National Public Radio) interviewed Sifton about her book, which you can listen to via NPR's website: The Serenity Prayer: Faith in Times of Peace and War.

Answer 2

Reinhold Niebuhr

Answer 3

the finished poem, and the final line extremely, presupposes the standard enormous distinction be made between people and nature. there's no demonstrable data of such enormous distinction. people and nature are one and a similar. interior your physique is an entire eco-device, a veritable international of living organisms that subsist on your living, and without which you will genuinely be ineffective (see organic and organic mutualism). subsequently, people are, somewhat, environment, and in spite of we do is "organic," even with the superstitious indoctrinations of religion (which condemns us as "sinners"), and the widespread mythos of environmentalist movements (which condemns us as "polluters"). The Earth existed a protracted time in the previous people emerged from the mixture of amino acids, image voltaic and carbon, and could maximum possibly exist long as quickly as we are extinct. And extinction of species is as organic, and straightforward, as meteorological activities.

Answer 4

I believe it was that guy, Anonymous - well known poet and famous for quotes. *LOL* Not really...it was Reinhold Niebuhr.

Answer 5

it's always been anonymous