You praying?

Interesting passage i read the other day that echoed in its profoundness to my current situation.  I think I've been trying really hard to communicate with God and have not felt it very genuine.

Enjoy.
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Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign additions to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.; Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's "bonduca", when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Aduate, replies, -

"His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours. Our valors are our best gods."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-reliance.

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Business School...yes I'm getting an education

So I've been of this blog for literally ages. i.e not posting anything. Well today having 9 assignments that must be done and submitted within the next ten days I was reading through my course notes and found a poem I must share.

Its a pity its anonymous but is so described my utter frustration with management that I would love to give the author a big fat kiss:

The Creation

In the beginning was the plan
and then came the assumptions
and the assumptions were without form
and the plan was completely without substance
and darkness was put upon the faces of the workers
And they spake to their group heads saying;

"Its a crock of shit and it stinketh"

And the group heads went unto their section heads saying

"Its a pile of dung and none may abide
the odour thereof."

And the section heads went unto their managers and sayeth unto them

"It is a container of excrement,
and its very strong"

And the managers went unto their Director and sayeth to him

"It is a vessel of fertilizer
and none may abide its strength"

And the Directors went unto their Director General and sayeth:

"It contains that which aids plant growth
and it is very strong"

And the Director general went unto the assistant
Deputy minister and sayeth unto him

"It promoteth growth,
and it is very powerful"

And the ADM went to the Deputy minister and sayeth to him

"This powerful new plan will actively promote growth and
efficiency of the department and this area in particular"

and the Deputy Minister looked upon the plan and saw that it was good
and the plan became Policy.

HAVE A FUN FILLED WORK WEEK