god give me the serenity

to accept the things i cannot change,
the courage to change the things that i can,
+ the wisdom to know the difference.

" Here it comes again: another start of another day. What a reprieve! You have incalculable chances to change the ending. To change your attitude. To be the new you. Whether you know it or not, you already are the new you. Forget what you think, lose the foregone conclusion, and just be new."

excerpt from 'Momma Zen" by Karen Maezen Miller

with the whole self-discovery thing never-ending and our children ever changing and life always throwing in curve balls i never know what to expect of a new day. i succeed and fail around every corner and my desire is to recognize i am new each day, each moment. i desire to keep from getting caught up on my mistakes and use them as a catapult of better response, deep breathing, self-control launching me to the courage to change the things that i can. today is a new day. it is a new morning. it is a new moment. have you read 'all in a day' ? it's a keeper and becoming a morning ritual to start our off our day right: together, remembering there will be up's and down's but we have the incalculable number of chances to change the ending.