Corporate life can be so rewarding. And challenging, and frustrating, and demanding. Unpredictable. Don’t blame the machine known as “the business world”.
It is what it is. Even the caveman had it tough. Maybe even tougher. No 401k. No Churches. No Government. No justice. No pension.
So your friend gets eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, what are you gonna do? Throw the big cat in jail? Administer the death penalty?
In a busy world, and it’s always been a busy world, we can’t do everything that comes across our path. Yet we often try to anyway.
Why? We learn a lot from watching those who came before us. We also learn from TV, movies, books, and the Internet.
It’s not uncommon for us to have a skewed list of priorities because all we know is all we know.
To change our perspective – and our priorities – we’d really need some significant force.
Is a powerful, paradoxical question enough?
It might be…
Please join me in a warm welcome for Patty Hebert. Take it away Patty:
Think about it. You find a thick envelope in the mail. Your eyes roll. You open it; another wedding invitation; a cousin, a niece, an estranged sibling. The clock is running. You have six weeks to formulate the perfect, Sorry but… Tried to squeeze it in but…
Think about it. The phone rings. A grandmother, grandfather, cousin, uncle, or estranged sister has died; unexpectedly or not. The calendar is wiped. Children get pulled from school with no thought of missed homework or exams. Important business meetings and dinner plans canceled. Soccer tournaments missed.
Now ask yourself, what’s more important, the living or the dead?
Most people never do. They intend to, but life gets in the way.
After Mass yesterday, where I volunteered (10 years now) as a Lector, I went looking for Father Ennis. Based on a post last week, I wanted to tell him something.