| | Work has been brutal... markets are in chaos. My investments at work are bleeding money even now as the dust is settling and other people on my desk are starting to get back into the black, even people junior to me. In my personal investments, I've lost enough money in the past few weeks to buy a small car. I can't help but think that maybe I'm just not cut out to be a successful trader, that maybe I was wrong to think that it was God who placed me in this job, even with my miracle/testimony of getting this job in the first place. I'm going to be chopped liver soon. A CFA doesn't do much good if you lose money anyway.
Today I must've sighed a dozen times in the ten minutes that it took to drive home. I plopped myself in front of my computer, planning to get through the pain by playing stupid java games and watching YouTube videos. Then I saw my Bible lying there next to my bed. Normally I don't pick it up until I do QT right before bed. I thought maybe I'd try something different today to ease the pain... see if Pastor Danny's sermon a few weeks ago was worth its salt.
After sifting through a few books, I stumbled upon this:
I have been deprived of peace;
I have forgotten what prosperity is.
So I say, "My splendor is gone
and all that I had hoped from the Lord.
I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
Yet this I call to mind
and therefore have hope:
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him."
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.
Let him sit alone in silence,
for the Lord has laid it on him.
Lamentations 3:17-28
Fine... "buy and hold and pray" it is. 
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