Serenity Prayer (2022)

for soprano and piano

Duration: 4’

Written for Ah-Young Hong voice studio and Composition department collaboration project

Premiered by soprano Elizabeth Kim and pianist Yeeun Sim on April 29th, 2022, Baltimore, MD

Text by Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

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