Can you believe it… We’re at the end of 2016 and staring at the beginning of 2017!
Families and friends will gather together during the holiday season to celebrate and share with one another and prepare to usher in a new year!
Families today don’t always fit the definition of a “Nuclear Family”… father, mother, and children, but can be made up of those living together in a household while caring, supporting, and sharing family life together. Many families today are also multi-generational with grandparents and extended family sharing a home together.
Regardless of your personal family structure, as variations of family structures have evolved, they all still share the same common challenges and responsibilities of family life – living peacefully together, sharing daily responsibilities and supporting each other emotionally!
The “Holiday Season” can be emotionally stressful!
American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr authored a prayer in the 1930’s and is said worldwide today known as the “Serenity Prayer.” The short version is commonly said but the full version is as follows:
The Serenity Prayer
God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living ONE DAY AT A TIME;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next. Amen.
– Reinhold Neibuhr
Throughout this Holiday Season, take some time to reflect, slow down and meditate on the blessings we all have… with an attitude of gratitude!
– Trif Kupanoff, Publisher
