There is a lovely and satisfying choreography to the self-encircling, half-negating linguistic knot that is the Serenity Prayer.
And while words are merely the awkward and flimsy placeholders for our thoughts, so replacing the dancers of the original short poem with their vocabulary understudies feels both flippantly disrespectful and obviously, entirely logical.
The motions of replacement words, moving ever-so-slightly differently, can still following the arc of the original meaning. Here are ten mutations/iterations/manifestations on the Serenity Prayer’s idea that awareness of nuance is a form of wisdom.