One Eyed
By Mark Flippo
There's no way that this photo could be real, right. Wrong. The man is named Billy Owen, and he overcame a sinus cancer that wound up costing him his right eye.
That must have been a serious cancer. Can you imagine going through that kind of thing? Some of you have had or do have cancer. Our prayers go out to you. God does still heal cancer. I am sorry for the emotional and physical roller coaster you have been on!
Though clearly circulating in oral form earlier, the earliest established date for a written form of the prayer is various versions printed in newspaper articles in the early 1930s by or reporting on talks given by Winnifred Crane Wygal, a pupil of Niebuhr's The most well-known form of the prayer attributed to Niebuhr is a late version, as it includes a reference to grace not found before 1951:
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
This prayer has been a comfort to generations of people since it's inspiration!
http://moderndayparablesrcf.com
By Mark Flippo
There's no way that this photo could be real, right. Wrong. The man is named Billy Owen, and he overcame a sinus cancer that wound up costing him his right eye.
That must have been a serious cancer. Can you imagine going through that kind of thing? Some of you have had or do have cancer. Our prayers go out to you. God does still heal cancer. I am sorry for the emotional and physical roller coaster you have been on!
Though clearly circulating in oral form earlier, the earliest established date for a written form of the prayer is various versions printed in newspaper articles in the early 1930s by or reporting on talks given by Winnifred Crane Wygal, a pupil of Niebuhr's The most well-known form of the prayer attributed to Niebuhr is a late version, as it includes a reference to grace not found before 1951:
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
This prayer has been a comfort to generations of people since it's inspiration!
http://moderndayparablesrcf.com