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, 17:33, December 3, 2008
The Serenity Prayer goes, "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference."<ref>"Never had we seen so much A.A. in so few words," [[Bill W.]] wrote. [http://www.aahistory.com/prayer.html The Origin of our Serenity Prayer] </ref>
Although the ending, "wisdom to know the difference", sounds like a [[punchline]], the prayer is no joke. It is part of the most serious organized program of spiritual and religious development known to modern psychology (see [[Twelve Steps]]).