Learning to Let Go

I've probably mentioned "The Serenity Prayer" before. You've heard it, I'm sure: "Lord, grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference." As I travel through life, I realize more and more that there is far more in that second (can't change) category than in the first (can change.) Don't know about you, but I'd rather not waste precious time and resources pushing against a brick wall, trying to change something I cannot. And yet I spend so much of that time and resource worrying about those same things! I'm halfway there--I know what I can't change, but I still have to work on accepting that...and will always have to work on it. Every day I find new things that I have no control over, and every day I must have God's peace and serenity to accept that. Maybe we should pray this little prayer every day.