The Beatitudes – Matthew 5:3-12 – are some of the most-loved verses in the New Testament. Poetic and beautiful, they are easy to remember. But are they easy to live? Especially in the busy 9-to-5? “Sunday into Monday” is a one-hour workshop to help us “blessedly” live our 9-to-5 work hours, as Christ taught in …
“I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.” — Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) Susan B. Anthony had a clear gift of vocation. Do we know ours as well? If not, …
Spirituality, like leadership, is a hard thing to define. But Annie Dillard has given us a vivid image of what authentic spirituality is about: “in the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters down, if you drop with them farther over the world’s rim, …
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Swami Sivananda Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, wither thou goest. — Ecclesiastes, 9:10 from Zen to Go, …
Help thy brother’s boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore. — Hindu Proverb I first read this in Proverbs To Live By: Truths That Live in Words, a book that my mom received as a gift in 1968.
For those who ask, “How do I make money…?” One of the most positive transitions you can make is from viewing your work as a job to viewing it as a calling. A job is an exchange of energy in which you do a material task and someone provides money in exchange. A calling, however, …
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. …