When consistently engaging in practices of human wholeness and integrity something “subtle” takes place. Transformation.
This has been my favorite and most challenging chapter of this book. I am still wrestling with the notion that the “dark night of the soul” has an impact on one’s business life as well as one’s spirituality.
Of course, you say. Of course, I say!
A big mistake of modernity has been to compartmentalize spirituality away from other categories of work, life and relationships.
Of course one’s journey of personal maturity includes and impacts all areas of life. Even work. Especially work.
Benefiel courageously takes on perseverance in light of those tumultuous, disorienting seasons of life when the assumptions that have guided us to date collide with a deeper, richer, larger reality.
A medieval scholar, St. John of the Cross, is most famous for observing and describing how the spiritual journey includes seasons of such enormous disorientation that all ways seem dark, lonely, and impassable.
But we live busy lives of work, family, community involvement, political activism, etc. How do we accommodate an extended season of difficult (more…)