Level One

I’ve finally come to appreciate the matter of “playing” at work, and enjoying one’s occupation so that it becomes a pre-occupation. Early in my career we were taught to distinguish between “jobs” and “vocations,” the latter, of course, meaning to be doing a certain work because we wanted to do it. However, though I spent my college and post-graduate years (1950’s) training to be a pastor in Christian churches, I have always been deflected somewhat by many other interests. While in theology classes, in boredom I drew diagrams of a barn I’d like to build, etc. And so, I caught on to Friday-Night-Essences as I read about them in your book, late in life. Yet I have had many experiences of feeling good as I sometimes perceive that I’ve helped someone figure out his or her puzzling life-dramas.
One of my life-long puzzles has been: Why is there never enough money? I’m sure most ministers have puzzled that one. Yet I’ve inadvertently absorbed a lie by which 1) I’ve been available cheap, and 2) churches take advantage. My chief attraction to your “secret society” was that I might become aware of the real nature of the “vow of poverty” – hopefully to reverse that trend.
But I anticipate / understand that issue, and others, will be addressed in the future.