Oh My-just incredible! Thank you so much!” “Sherrie I almost cried at the beauty of your artwork (it arrived today). “Sherrie, Got the prints today and they are absolutely beautiful!!! Thank you sooo much. Sherrie's book, On Softer Ground: Paintings, Poems and Calligraphy, won a gold medal for Most Outstanding Book Design of 2016 from Independent Publisher Book Awards. She teaches abstract calligraphic painting workshops nationally. Her calligraphy has been honored in books and magazines for many years. Sherrie Lovler is a calligrapher, artist and poet. Original text of Desiderata in first published book.įrom The Poems of Max Ehrmann edited by Bertha Ehrmann There’s a real and caring person on this end. Museum quality-will last for generations.86 different options of designs, sizes, colors and frames.The original piece is hand lettered calligraphy - not type.The framed prints are protected with glass and double boxed, ready to give as a gift to make you proud or to hang on your own wall. The matted prints come packaged in a plastic slip. All acid-free mats and backing board are used and the frames are solid wood. The care Sherrie takes in creating the work is matched with the care she takes in matting and framing. They are then made into either lithographs or giclée prints, on archival paper with lightfast inks. The rose version has six choices of flower colors, the diamond one comes in dark blue or green. Seeing a need for both feminine and masculine versions, Sherrie designed one with roses and one with a torn paper look with diamonds and a border. Sherrie created the lettering style to be easy-to-read at any size reproduction. Each letter is carefully crafted paying close attention to both the letter form and the space between the letters. The original art of these Desiderata prints and posters are in beautiful calligraphy by Sherrie Lovler. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars you have a right to be here.Īnd whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.īeyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Neither be cynical about love for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.īe yourself. Keep interested in your own career, however humble it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.Įxercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.Įnjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant they too have their story.Īvoid loud and aggressive persons they are vexatious to the spirit. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. Amen.This is the original text from the book where Desiderata was first published. That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. Over the years, the Serenity Prayer was changed to read, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. 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 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. The original full version of the “Serenity Prayer” reads, “God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the thing which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
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