Not The Post You Expected

Good news bringer is my middle name:D

A friend of mine has won the Best Story Competition for the newest player on the Bulgarian game development market. Did I say competition?;)

He wants to sell the award btw. Contact me if interested.^_^

Images Without Words

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Personal favorite - a Tolkien tree.

And some fabulous sunsets.

Serenity Prayer (extended version)

The origins of Serenity Prayer seem to be unclear.

It became famous as theologian Reinhold Niebuhr used it in a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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.

Living one day at a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time,

Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.

Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.

Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will.

That I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with Him forever in the next.

Amen.

And mentioning AA, I guess I should list the 12 steps, used also by other recovery programs, for example NA.

Twelve Steps

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol; that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

The text of the 12 steps has often been modified to suit the needs of non-religious people^^.

Cloudy Now?

Blackfield - Cloudy Now

Listen

In a violent place we can call our country
Is a mixed up man and I guess that's me
The sun's in the sky but the storm never seems to end
It's a place of sorrow but we call it a home
And the darkest thoughts, yeah I guess they're my own
There's wealth in the bank but there's nothing to show inside

It's cloudy now (x3)
It's getting cloudy now

In a special place that I call my life
The father was cruel and he lost his wife
But I don't see either cos I live across the street
It's a beautiful thing when it starts to rain
A man who drinks just to drown the pain
And I can't stop from dreaming there's something else

We are a fucked up generation
It's cloudy now
We gotta get out of here
It's cloudy now

(LYRICS - Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen)

It's the weather, nothing but the weather:D
Two things to cheer us up:

Today's Webshots Photo

and

Omg it's truly and verily the 21st century!