Getting a life

On a similar note to what Dish has written recently, my plans for the summer and God's plans for the summer seem to have been two separate things. I started work today, however it was not at my uncle's office two hours away in the mountains, but about 15 minutes down the road at a hotel. Although I would have preferred to work for my uncle, I am dealing well with the change of plans. We'll see if the reason for the change is revealed anytime in the near future, or if it's one of those things where we don't/aren't capable of see/ing the reasons.

At this point, anything to get me out of the house is welcome. I've been pretty pathetic lately. I haven't left the house much. I'm not even sure how I'm able to fill the days, but some how I manage. I'm a little jealous-- it sounds as if all of you are having so much fun over there. Hopefully having a job will help me get back on track in the "getting a life" category. I'm going mad being around the house all day.

I have been doing a bit of reading and came across this prayerfrom a book called Prayers Old and New sent to me a while back by a priest friend of mine . It was marking my place in a book I had started before I left for Scotland and have recently picked up again. I love it and I thought I'd pass it along. Father, draw us out of base content.

Our High Calling
Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts,
and made us all seekers after that which we can never fully find;
forbid us to be satisfied with what we make of life.
Draw us from base content,
and set our eyes on far-off goals.
Keep us at tasks too hard for us, that we may be driven to Thee for strength.
Deliver us from fretfulness and self pity
make us sure of the goal we cannot see, and of the hidden good in the world.
Open our eyes to simple beauty all around us,
and our hearts to the loveliness men and women hide from us because we do not try enough to understand them.
Save us from ourselves, and show us a vision of a world made new.
May thy Spirit of peace and illumination so enlighten our minds that all life shall glow with new meaning and new purpose;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.