The Afterword

Tag: dailyprompt-1899

  • What I Was Called to Do All Along

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    Peter
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    What job would you do for free? Some work pays the bills. Other work tells the truth about your life. I have been thinking for a while about what I would do for free. The answer, I think, is the work I was called to do all along. For all my adult life, in one…

  • Staying Soft

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    Peter
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    When I was a teenager, I heard someone say something that stayed with me: that he was lucky because he got paid to do what he would gladly do for nothing. He was a minister—an evangelist, to be precise—and his job was to tell people what he knew about God. And people paid him to…