2-4-1 Short Answer Seeing Your Artifact in a New Light PDF

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2-4-1 Short Answer: Seeing Your Artifact in a New Light Andrea Morrison

The artifact I chose to study more on is the Serenity Prayer. The Serenity Prayer has a long version and shortened version. The shortened version is well-known amongst those within the recovery community (Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, etc). How you experience the Serenity Prayer is how you feel it. If you’re at an AA or NA meeting, you’re experiencing the Serenity Prayer as a motivation of courage and strength to overcome addiction. Others use it as a symbol to overcome obstacles in life. Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the Serenity Prayer during the Holocaust while he was safe in America. Over the years, the Serenity Prayer has gained slightly different wording but contains the same meaning. Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the Serenity Prayer as a prayer for acceptance for what was happening in Nazi-Germany. I believe the Serenity Prayer has kept its original meaning. In a sense, addiction is somewhat like the Holocaust, without the discrimination of a specific race or person. Addiction does not discriminate on who it takes. Addiction takes so many lives per day. Those of us lucky enough to break the grips of addiction and see a world without drugs and alcohol, we use the Serenity Prayer as courage to keep pushing forward, to remind to accept our past because we cannot change it.

Below is the Serenity Prayer that is most popularly known. “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.”

Below is the Serenity Prayer that Reinhold Niebuhr wrote. “God give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”...