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Taking Your Soul to Work ? Joyful Relinquishment (Chapter 22)

Taking your soul to workJust yesterday, my wife and I were discussing how it might be time to start downsizing – getting rid of some of the stuff we had accumulated over the years. ?

Sadly, on reflection, my motivation was to create more space for more stuff if I am honest. The recent Christmas season has meant more booty around the house than we had a couple of months ago – even if it is just ‘socks and jocks’. ?More things need to find a home.

In the conversation that commences this chapter, Alvin Ung responds to his colleague Paul Stevens with this comment:??The wonderful thing about practicing relinquishment is that it frees us from a grasping spirit.? We relinquish things that have a stronger grip on our soul than God ? be it possessions, social standing, family ties, friendships or bodily needs.??(Alvin Ung) [Read more…] about Taking Your Soul to Work ? Joyful Relinquishment (Chapter 22)

Myth 6: We work to earn money, so you may as well earn as much of it as possible

This week’s workplace myth from the Threads team challenges our thinking about our pay packet and hy we work. ?I particularly loved this sentence from Sarah-Jane Marshall:

“I can still buy into the lie that my paycheck tells me how much I am ?worth? or that the social standing of my job determines my significance in the world.? And equally I can be snared by the falsehood that the good I am doing through my work earns me special favour in God?s eyes. I can still forget that my identity is ultimately in Jesus.”

Read the full article here.?

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