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Wisdom from Peterson
“I am a pastor. My work has to do with God and souls — immense mysteries that no one has ever seen at any time. But I carry out this work in conditions — place and time — that I see and measure wherever I find myself, whatever time it is. There is no avoiding […]
Wisdom from Rilke
“If your daily life seems poor do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Norton, 1954.
Working to our strengths
I’ve returned to work this year with a small resolution in mind. Not small in the sense of being insignificant. More in the sense that my life is small, not grand, and any resolutions to do with its living will be, by necessity, humble. The resolution is this: I want to work as much as […]