“To live is to be slowly born.”


Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Celebrating Everyday Spirituality

Another Work Week

It’s Monday. The start of another week of work. Mondays are a time to make a goal or two or three. For me, such goals give me life. Whether it’s cleaning or yard work or a project at my place of employment or a special menu, my goals inspire me to get moving. Beyond inspiring me to use my time well, they inspire me to make a “great use of [my] life.” Something useful for earth and time, something useful for the timeless. William James wrote, “The great use of your life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.” Anything I do now has an impact on our earthly future and on eternity.

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