being a controller

Serenity, Courage, and Wisdom in Our Time

Mar 29, 2020

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

being a controller, hard power, learned helplessness, Perfectionism, Serenity Prayer, soft power, surrender power, Twelve Step Spirituality

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. Thus reads one of the best-loved prayers of all: the Serenity Prayer. It is best-loved because it touches with refreshing frankness on the “something” in humanity that is…