Because Yahweh has said this,
the creator of the heavens, he is God,
the former of the earth and its maker
– he established it, he did not create it an emptiness,
he formed it for inhabiting:

‘I am Yahweh
and there is no other.
It was not in hiddenness that I spoke,
in a place in a dark country.
I didn’t say to Ya’aqob’s offspring,
“Enquire of me in emptiness.”

I am Yahweh, speaking of faithfulness,
telling of what is right.
Gather, come, draw near together,
escapees of the nations.
The people who carry their wooden images have not acknowledged,
the people who plead with a god who does not deliver.
Tell out, bring near,
yes, consult together.
Who let people hear of this beforehand,
told about it of old?
Was it not I, Yahweh? –
and there was no other God apart from me,
The faithful God and deliverer;
there’s none except me.
Turn your faces to me and find deliverance,
all the ends of the earth,
because I am God and there’s no other.
By myself I’ve sworn,
faithfulness has gone out from my mouth,
a word that will not turn back:
To me every knee will bend,
every tongue swear.
“Only in Yahweh (of me it is said)
are faithful acts and vigour.”’
To him they will come and be shamed,
all who rage at him.
In Yahweh all Yisra’el’s offspring
will be faithful and will exult.

Goldingay, John; Goldingay, John; Wright, Tom; Wright, Tom. The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

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.