If you are here, you are seeking something.  What are you seeking, cures to depression, loneliness, anxiety?   Or improvement in career, life, purpose, meaning, joy or best of all, wisdom. 

Answers to those very matters exist where scripture intersects with secular.  In layman’s terms, the bible as God’s How-To Guidebook for daily life.

A point of clarification, though the answers rise from Christianity and the bible, this neither is intended to convert or debate dogma. 

Rather, the aim is to examine the words and actions of those in scripture as the blueprint for how to live.   To this end, its wisdom is available and functional to all…believer or not.  While the bible is theological, moral, historical and beyond, ultimately God’s Way is not an academic exercise, but rather instruction on living. 

It is not complicated, once you see it you cannot unsee it.

The hope is insight into what you seek comes through two stories; stories that will change people’s lives. (attached in PDF)

God’s Guidebook to Business…as taught by an angel

God’s Guidebook to Purpose, Meaning and Happiness…as taught by an angel

I am sure you can guess their subject matters.  Ultimately we are co-creators with God in our lives.  We can trust that God will do his part, it is in our control to learn how to do our part.

Attached are the two stories, though not autobiographic, they were definitely lived.  Both revolve around Christian-ish, career driven Tom and his mentor, Catherine, a coffee serving angel.  Ultimately, my hope is these stories change peoples’ lives.

Business was written years earlier.  It evolved from observation, then a mix of curiosity and experimentation, and finally wonderment at the measurable career results.  I remember not only the incidents that led to the various principles and lessons, I can see that payoffs were real and how when acting counter to them it created all sorts of problems if not outright career suicide. In looking back, I see how the principles became ingrained, unconscious second nature and how it would be nearly impossible to separate them from success.  It is an essential read for anyone at any point in their career.

Purpose, Meaning and Happiness;  Unlike Business which resulted from a slowly growing awareness of a better way, Purpose grew out of a desperate need to solve a personal issue in the midst of a societal epidemic of loneliness, listlessness, depression, anxiety, boredom, call it what you want. 

And unlike Business, the lessons of Purpose need to be constantly revisited, re-practiced.  Not because I have done something evil or dastardly wrong, but because the behaviors produce opportunities, which then produce healthy distractions.  To this end, after being lax and drifting a bit, I find myself consulting the enclosed chart and consciously implementing a behavior or two.  And it always pays dividends (not instant), but often in the course of days, if not hours.

Let me know what you think.