The serenity prayer, written by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr around 1932, goes like this:
Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other.
Today I was having a discussion with a colleague. We got to talking about the crazy disruption of everyone’s life since this pandemic started.
At some point in the conversation I invoked the serenity prayer, and I said, “Basically, it has become an operating manual.”