You must let go of your past

From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke Leaving good things behind can be hard. But leaving the pain of the past can be far more challenging. To some degree, we all have places in our hearts where the past is still gripping us.

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The key is reconnecting

From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant One of Rifkin’s maxims is “I believe in the strength of weak ties.” It’s in homage to a classic study by the Stanford sociologist Mark Granovetter. Strong ties are our close friends and colleagues, the people we really trust. Weak ties are

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Another Moment

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner AND THEN, FROM wherever it is that they come from, there came another moment. Not long after A Long Day’s Dying was published, a man I scarcely knew asked me to have lunch with him. He was one of the ministers who

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something I can’t not do

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer Vocation at its deepest level is not, “Oh, boy, do I want to go to this strange place where I have to learn a new way to live and where no one, including me, understands what I’m doing.” Vocation at

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The Sacred Compass

From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill The sacred compass also shows us that the path of discernment is unique to each person. The sacred compass leads each of us to the life only we can live.

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