The Jabez prayer grants the supplicant full access to the American cult of success, an adoration of power and material satisfaction untroubled by any sense that the world may be a tragic place or the fear that the enlargement of one's territory might leave others' diminished.
Working with SSRC as both a recipient of a New Directions in the Study of Prayer grant through Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (full disclosure) and as a professor and creator of both academic content and mass-market religious and secular media, I have an inside opportunity to speak to some SSRC "early adopters".
Will my prayer be granted?
Her prayer was granted, and her sons, Amphoterus and Acarnan, slew Phegeus.
Demographic Prayer God grant me the serenity To accept the trends I cannot change; The imagination to ignore them; And the wisdom to spin them on the set of "Fox & Friends And Neil Cavutoto".
His family members described him as a "gentle giant", and on his right biceps he wore a tattoo of the well-known "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".
When I first chanted the serenity prayer – "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference" – in an Al-Anon meeting, I still thought R was the thing I could change, yet I didn't think I needed to change myself.
Last night, according to an account at Politico, the G.O.P. leader was reduced to standing in front of the House Republican Conference, the members of which had just torpedoed his "Plan B" tax plan, and reciting a prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference".
In A.A. they have the serenity prayer, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change".
* 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.
