The serenity prayer, written by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr around 1932, goes like this:<\/p>\n
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.<\/i><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
At some point in the conversation I invoked the serenity prayer, and I said, “Basically, it has become an operating manual.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading “Operating manual”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23839,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838\/revisions\/23839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}