by Rhett Smith | Sep 21, 2017 | Anxiety, Podcast
I have recently been thinking a lot about the intertwining of vocation and anxiety. What I mean by that is that it seems that part of the journey towards finding vocation is that anxiety is often along for the journey. In my writing and speaking on anxiety, and in my...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 17, 2017 | Intentional Living, Podcast
Wow! I can’t believe I am already at Episode 100. I published my first episode back on March 24, 2015, with the goal of trying to get at least one episode published per week. With that in mind I was hoping to hit 100 episodes right around the two year mark, if...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 5, 2013 | Intentional Living
Parker Palmer has written one of my all-time favorite books — one that I re-read every year — Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. Powerful…powerful book, and one that I have written on quite a bit over the years.
by Rhett Smith | Mar 23, 2009 | Leadership
“The Quaker teacher Douglas Steere was fond of saying that the ancient human question ‘Who am I?’ leads inevitably to the equally important question, ‘Whose am I?’–for there is no selfhood outside of relationship. We must ask the...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 19, 2009 | Leadership
This post is an ongoing reflection on the book Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer. “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 16, 2009 | Leadership
“Everything in the universe has a nature, which means limits as well as potentials, a truth well known by people who work daily with the things of the world. Making pottery, for example, involves more than telling the clay what to become. The clay presses back...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 9, 2009 | Leadership
I have been returning time and time again to one of my favorite books on the topic of identity and vocation, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer. I first read the book in 2002 when I was finishing up my M. Div. at Fuller...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 12, 2008 | Leadership
Parker Palmer is the author of one of my favorite books, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. If you have not read it, then you need to stop what you are doing and get in your car and go pick it up. Or stop what you are doing and order it online....
