{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Serenity Prayer - Recovered 568","description":"Call us at 1-734-288-7510\r\nemail at mstapletonpe@gmail.com\r\nSober Life Mouthwash Website \r\nPromo Code PODCAST\r\nfor 20% Discount\r\nThe Big Book\r\nThe 12 and 12\r\n24 Hours a Day\r\nVote for Recovered Best Health and Fitness Show\r\npodcastawards\r\nBut the Offical Recovered Podcast Tee Shirt\r\nOfficial Recovered Podcast Tee Shirts\r\nSerenity Prayer, \r\nGod, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,\r\nThe courage to change the things I can,\r\nAnd the wisdom to know the difference.\r\nWhat were your thoughts, experience of the Serenity Prayer? \r\nWas it off putting, or was it comforting? \r\nDid the word God bother you?\r\nEarly days, What did it mean to you ( and hosts), in the early days.\r\nHow did you begin to apply it to your sobriety\/ recovery.\r\nDid it help?\r\nWhat the Prayer did for me in the early days ( and can still do today), is remind me of the \r\nimportance of acceptance, can bring comfort to me and it also began to develop a Faith in a power greater than myself, the idea that something outside of myself ( or within myself), could help me....restore me to Sanity.\r\nWhen I pray, I consider the idea that I am not alone, and sometimes this is a very new concept for the new person. \r\nIt can also begin to grow an inner humility, an understanding that I am not and can not control everything or everyone in my life.....something that we all tried to do in our addiction!!!\r\nGod grant me the Serenity....What does this mean to you?\r\nTo accept the things I can not change, how do we do this, why do we need to do this?\r\nCourage to change the things I can.. where can you put the action in ?\r\nWisdom to know the difference....How does the Program help you to do this? \r\nWhen I pray, I feel that I am not alone, is this important?, Why is it important for the new guy, or the long timer.\r\nJust think the next time you're in a meeting and you're all saying the Serenity Prayer, just take a moment to consider how many of us all over the world are doing the same thing!! Isn't that wild? Something that brings me such joy and a sense of togetherness and Peace\ud83c\udf1f","author_name":"Recovered Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/recoveredcast.com","html":"