3 Prayers to recover serenity, healing and peace

Serenity prayer is one of the best known and most loved prayers. Although extraordinarily simple, it has impacted countless lives, providing them with the strength and courage of God in their battle to overcome the addictions that control life.

This prayer was also called the 12-step prayer, the anonymous alcoholics prayer or the recovery prayer.

serenity prayer
God, grant me the serenity of
accept the things I can't change, the
courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom of knowing the difference.

Live one day at a time,
Enjoy one moment at a time,
Accept difficulties as a way to peace,
Take, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not how I would have done it,
Trusting me that you will make all things right,
If I surrender to your will,
so that I can be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with you
forever in the next.
Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

Prayer for recovery and healing
Dear Lord of Mercy and Father of Comfort,

You are the one I turn to for help in moments of weakness and in times of need. I ask you to be with me in this disease and affliction.

Psalm 107: 20 says that you send your Word and heal your people. So please send me your healing word now. In the name of Jesus, he chases away all diseases and afflictions from his body.

Dear Lord, I ask you to transform this weakness into strength, this suffering into compassion, pain into joy and pain into comfort for others. May I, your servant, trust in your goodness and hope in your faithfulness, even in the midst of this struggle. Fill me with patience and joy in your presence as I breathe into your healing life.

Please, bring me back to completeness. Remove all fear and doubt from my heart with the power of your Holy Spirit and may you, Lord, be glorified in my life.

As you heal me and renew me, Lord, may I bless you and praise you.

All this, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Prayer for peace
This well-known prayer for peace is a classic Christian prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226).

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
in case of injury, sorry;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that perhaps I am not trying so much to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, how to understand;
to be loved, like to love;
since it is in giving what we receive,
it is in forgiveness that we are forgiven,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen.
- St. Francis of Assisi