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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere near here
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Legendary
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere near here
Posts: 11,418
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Stress does not cause damage. It just prevents healing or returns you to your original injured condition.
You may want to try to learn the serenity prayer.
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 original, attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr in 1941, is:
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.
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Mark in Idaho
"Be still and know that I am God" Psalm 46:10
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