This morning I’m thinking about how easy it is for us to get overwhelmed, and how common it is for that feeling to paralyze us, whether in personal transitions, times of stress, or in facing a task that requires a grand vision, such as dealing with poverty and it’s myriad issues. Those different sources of feeling overwhelmed both require us to simply do the next thing before us and continually hand the rest over to God, something like Niebuhr’s old serenity prayer, which I vaguely remember hanging somewhere in my grandparents home:
“May God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
After all, what is is impossible with men is possible with God. How dare I deny it?
I needed that. Thanks Steven.
Thank, Bert!