Easter Perspective

Busy business leaders can benefit by taking time to step aside and rewire. One way of rewiring is to gain more perspective about who we are and our overall purpose. Faith guides purpose in life - helps bring meaning to our overall existence in relation to others, our earth, and God.

One benefit is that faith and spirituality are linked to positive physical and mental health. Faith helps us answer the meaning life has for us: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why do we exist? What is the meaning of life, of love, of tragic losses of death?

In light of purpose in life, many business leaders take a few moments to center themselves. For those readers and friends who celebrate Easter, here's a meditation - a poem by Luci Shaw...

Onlookers

"Sickness is a place. . .where there's no company, where nobody can follow." -- Flannery O'Connor

Behind our shield of health, each
of us must sense another's anguish
second-hand; we are agnostic in the face of dying. So Joseph
felt, observer of the push
and splash of birth, and even Mary,
mourner, under the cross's arm.

Only their son, and God's,
in bearing all our griefs
felt them first-hand, climbing
himself our rugged hill of pain.
His nerves, enfleshed, carried
the messages of nails, the tomb's
chill. His ever-open wounds
still blazon back to us the penalty
we never bore, and heaven
gleams for us more real,
crossed with that human blood.

From Postcard from the Shore, 1985