Words I Wish I Wrote

Now I never meant,
To do you wrong,
That’s what I came here to say.

But if I was wrong,
Then I’m sorry,
I don’t let it stand in our way.

As my head just aches,
When I think of,
The things that I shouldn’t have done.

But Life is for Living,
We all know,
And I don’t want to live it alone.

-Coldplay


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.

-Reinhold Niebuhr

these are Words I wish I wrote. The idea came from Robert Fulghum's book.

I simply love the coldplay song which came from their first album Parachutes(2000). A hidden track right after the song Everything's not Lost. I heard it first in the album Mylo Xyloto(2011) as an additional Live Track. The song speaks for itself.

That prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr for me sounds pretty much like Our Father. Coming from a man, it reflects the other side of the prayer. The one who was thought of the prayer. Our Father came from Jesus, therefore the one who thought it. I like being the man side of this story, and how much that prayer reflects myself as a flawed human being wanting only contentment and change.