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While I read your reponse the word "serenity" popped into my mind from nowhere or God sprinkling fairy dust on me.

I looked up the serenity prayer.

“God, give us the grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
the 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…
And trusting that You will make all things right,
when I surrender to Your will,
so that I may be happy in this life,
and supremely happy with You forever and ever in the next.
Amen.”

Now I am not sure which book in the Bible influences this prayer. It was seemingly authored by Reinhold Niebuhr. Curious, I looked him up.

>Starting as a minister with working-class sympathies in the 1920s and sharing with many other ministers a commitment to pacifism and socialism, his thinking evolved during the 1930s to neo-orthodox realist theology as he developed the philosophical perspective known as Christian realism.[27][28] He attacked utopianism as ineffectual for dealing with reality. Niebuhr's realism deepened after 1945 and led him to support American efforts to confront Soviet communism around the world. -wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr

Usual story, right? Young in his 20s he was pacifist socialist like lots of young dumb full of cum guys. Evolved into being strong opponent to jew communism. Though i did not find any mention by him of nazism, White nationalism, or Christian Identity or the role of jews by encounter.

>Niebuhr was born on June 21, 1892, in Wright City, Missouri, the son of German immigrants Gustav Niebuhr and his wife, Lydia (née Hosto).[44] His father was a German Evangelical pastor; his denomination was the American branch of the established Prussian Church Union in Germany. It is now part of the United Church of Christ. The family spoke German at home. His brother H. Richard Niebuhr also became a noted theological ethicist and his sister Hulda Niebuhr became a divinity professor in Chicago. The Niebuhr family moved to Lincoln, Illinois, in 1902 when Gustav Niebuhr became pastor of Lincoln's St. John's German Evangelical Synod church. Reinhold Niebuhr first served as pastor of a church when he served from April to September 1913 as interim minister of St. John's following his father's death.

Unfortunately, it seems he took the wrong side in WWII

>It was the issue of creeping US involvement in the war against Nazi Germany throughout 1940–41 that catalyzed, defined, and popularized Reinhold Niebuhr’s approach to international relations. Originally a pacifist himself, Niebuhr had always possessed doubts as to whether the main strength of the pacifist stance was in its moral validity per se, or simply in the post-World War I feelings of sheer nausea regarding violence—particularly in a country comfortable with the status quo. By 1934, he abandoned his dedication to absolute non-resistance for the same reason that he abandoned much of his earlier liberal idealism; he no longer viewed pacifism as a universally viable strategy in the struggle against injustice. While this position was originally reached on domestic matters—in defense of labor’s right to strike—the implications for foreign policy would be drawn out in the face of expanding tyranny and disorder overseas. Worried by Japanese expansion in China, appalled by the mistreatment of Jews in Hitler’s Reich, and sensitive to the shift in power represented by the 1938 Munich agreement, Niebuhr came to be a leading advocate for US entry into World War II. With books, articles, sermons, lectures, and public hearings, he argued for aid to the United Kingdom, for convoys, for Lend-Lease, for repeal of the Neutrality Acts, and for economic sanctions against Japan. In 1940–41, he launched a new journal, Christianity and Crisis; wrote the book Christianity and Power Politics; helped found the Union for Democratic Action; and testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, all in the hopes of mobilizing public opinion for intervention. Above all, he worked to convince mainstream liberal Protestants that they had not only a right but an obligation to aid Britain against Nazi Germany. https://providencemag.com/2020/04/reinhold-niebuhr-second-world-war/

The article has quotes by him that are disappointing.

For now on when i say or hear the Serenity prayer I will be reminded that the guy who authored it was fooled by taking the wrong side in WWII, and even abandoned his pacifist past to rescue jews all the while claiming it was communism which he opposed. George Lincoln Rockwell has a funny quote from one of his speeches. He said loving jews but hating communism is like loving to swim but hating to get wet.