The Serenity Prayer

This prayer, often repeated, is an originally untitled prayer by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. It makes great sense to me, and whether you believe in God or not, I think it's a smart idea.

God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
The courage to change the things I can;
And the wisdom to know the difference















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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Lumosity

Never give up; you never know until you try.

As you know if you've read or even scanned my blog any time in recent months, I'm looking for a job.  It's a disheartening, confusing, demeaning process that can make the strongest of us resort to thumb-sucking, sobbing, tantrum-throwing, and quitting altogether. 

I own up to at least one of the above, but I refuse to give up.  God didn't put me here and equip me with the abilities that I have for me to crawl in a hole somewhere.  I know that someone, somewhere, will appreciate and use my abilities and not just stick me somewhere doing a job that I can do in my sleep, for pay that wouldn't support the average tween.  I just have to keep looking.

I was going over my agenda for the week, having spent (wasted) several hours in fruitless job-searching activities, when I checked out "Lumosity," which I'd seen on television.  As I figured, it is in part a fee-based program, but there are free games, as well.  I don't know about the claims of "train your brain," but it did offer a few-minute respite from my negative-thinking spiral.  Check it out!

  http://www.lumosity.com/

 

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