Story of grace

When discouragement sets in: finals, a big paper looming, a job search, and the battle to be content in all circumstances...I gotta look up and sing the story of grace.

One way ticket to a lion's den
Got to go through the fire so I can come out again
Fight for my faith, live what I believe
Stand on my feet and sing, oh I will sing,

Jesus, you've called me friend

Jesus, you've made me what I am


Yet in my weak frame I'm calling out Your Name
Broke my heart with Your love, God I will love you the same
Forgiven notions I am brought to my knees,
The story of your grace fills me with the theme,

Jesus, you've called me friend
Jesus, you've made me what I am

Jesus, you're my life within
Jesus, you've called me friend


I will by the light of the glory you shine on me
I will be the grace that you offer so freely

-United Pursuit Band

The Inner-View (?)

I've just entered the position of applying for jobs (and frustratingly finding they are already filled, sigh).
The funny things is, the resume and application is just the first step. They are created to get you an interview. And then, depending on that view-into-you-- (is an interview really an inner view?) there might be a job offer.

This exciting and challenging process has got me keen on ways to market and promote...myself.
I found Seth Godin's business and marketing blog an asset in this new goal, and his article on
whats-the-point about interview questions intriguing and helpful to ask myself. 

Can you really figure out these things from a half hour with a person? Do you really understand who they are, and how they can contribute? Perhaps. Especially if that person is comfortable and confident in selling themselves (or, rather, letting their best shine through, which is how I am trying to look at it!)

What good interview questions are actually trying to discover

How long are you willing to keep pushing on a good project until you give up?
How hard is it to get you to change your mind when you're wrong?
How much do you learn from failing?
How long does it take you to learn something new?
How hard is it for you to let someone else take the lead?
How much do you care?

The rest is merely commentary, either that or they're interviewing you for a job that's not as good as you deserve. For those jobs, the only question they're really focusing on is, "will she fit in around here?"

The New Economy

I can't attend this lecture today, but I would be interested more of what Chris Farrell ahs to say. I enjoy his program on MPR and am excited about the idea of a new economy that would shift the American eye from blind consumption to asking the question of what is real joy and happiness. How refreshing.

The Frugal Future

Frontiers in the Environment seminar by
Chris Farrell, Economics Editor, "Marketplace Money," American Public Media
Yogi Berra famously quipped, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." But Farrell is willing to predict that, over the coming decade, the rise of the mobile Internet and the push for sustainability will transform the economy, driving the next wave of creative destruction (economist Joseph Schumpeter's phrase for the process by which new technologies, markets, and organizations supplant the old). For too long society equated living better with owning lots of stuff, much of it bought on credit. We always knew that wasn’t quite right—that what gives us real joy are experiences, learning, creativity, spirituality, friends and family. The promise of the new economy is the opportunity for a life made better not by ownership but by greater flexibility and meaning.

(https://events.umn.edu/The-Frugal-Future-013797.htm)