The Activist’s Prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change?

The courage to change the things I can

And the goddamned foolhardy stubbornness to resist the premise that there is brokenness in the world that cannot be changed and must be accepted.

Grant me the patience to endlessly explain obvious things to oblivious people

The vision to see a path through the darkness when a better world seems impossible

And the wisdom not to give up before the job is done.