How do you find the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can and the wisdom to know the difference?

Welcome to episode 289 of the Recovery Show.

My name is Spencer and I'm recording this in a park in North Texas

hearing the bird song looking out over a quite swollen lake and reflecting on how the serenity prayer has been so active in my life this weekend.

It was last weekend I think that I started thinking about the

serenity prayer, thinking about doing a sort of a meditation on the serenity

prayer for the podcast and I didn't manage to get to that.

Last weekend was, turned out to be full of stuff,

but, and I wasn't quite ready to talk about it, I guess.

And now I know why, because this weekend,

I had application of that prayer many times in the

last few days.

We flew down to Texas to spend the weekend here. My wife's family lives here, so we're going to celebrate Mother's Day with them.

Also see some of her friends from high school.

When we visit here, my wife has a trailer that she stores nearby and a person that she pays to bring it to the park, set it up in a campsite, so we have our own place to stay that is familiar and has, know our stuff in it and then at the end of the stay

the same person takes it back to the storage after you know emptying the tanks

and so on that need to be emptied and that's that

works pretty well so we got here on Thursday we're sitting in the airport waiting

for our rental car because okay here's the first application of the

acceptance of the things I cannot change somehow when I reserved the car I think there was some

kind of time zone glitch maybe in my head,

maybe in the website that I was using a reserved car,

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