Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul

meeting your sorrows head-on,

if you don’t figure things out before you move on, you’ll almost certainly find yourself in the same spot.

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.” He adds, “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” Indeed, on the other side of our sorrow lives our joy.

He and the others admonished me: “Don’t talk to your dad about death. It is a sign of weakness and Jesus won’t heal him if you have such doubt.” So we didn’t discuss it. My dad would try to talk to me, but I would say, “Dad we can’t talk about it or you won’t be healed.”

A dentist wrote me recently after reading a commencement speech I gave at Mizzou.

What is the intersection of your talents, what the world needs, and your passion?

“From the depths of my sorrow please reveal a place where I might serve someone who needs me.”

the best book written on the subject of personal vocation: Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer.

This is the great paradox, the mystery: when you immerse yourself in serving others wholeheartedly you find yourself, along with many answers to the “what next” questions you’ve been seeking.