Moods and Dispositions:
The unemployed

• The contented and fulfilled
• The restless and unsettled
• Those suffering from stress or bullying
• The target-chasers
• The uncaring
• The under-employed
• The unemployed
• Those who can't wait for retirement
• Those who dread the prospect of retirement

Loving Father, we live in a society that often values people according to the work they do and the salaries they earn. People without work can feel lost and discarded. Teach us, good Lord, to value them as you do. Help us who know them to assuage their bitterness and anger. May they find peace in the knowledge of your love, and the confidence to offer themselves for retraining and employment. Grant them that security in your love which will enable them to bounce back from their sense of rejection, and that delight in your providence through which they may move forward and prosper in new-found work.