Replacing Disorder At Work With Order Through Mortification
Mortification helps us replace disorder with order at work. Of course, this applies to our whole life, but our focus in these posts is the workplace. Our last three posts provided some advice that could seem too difficult or even in some instances impossible to incorporate into our work day. But read correctly, thoughtfully, we can see our way to the truth: There's no reason to consider anything that benefits our spiritual life to be inapplicable to our thoughts, words, and actions in the workplace. With this in mind, we turn to mortification - a subject we've discussed many times over the years. In one way, it's easier for us to apply mortification to our work day. It can be something simple like delaying eating our lunch for a couple of minutes after saying grace. And we can do this even during a business lunch - something some of us have to participate in from time to time. Mortification can extend to such items as holding our tongue if tempted to criticize others; or m...