{"id":702,"date":"2011-07-07T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/takeandread\/?p=702"},"modified":"2011-07-07T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:06:51","slug":"mother-teresa-ceo-joy-discipline-and-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/takeandread\/2011\/07\/mother-teresa-ceo-joy-discipline-and-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Teresa, CEO: Joy, Discipline and Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
[Editor\u2019s Note: <\/em>A<\/span>s part of our <\/span><\/em><\/strong>current book club on Mother Teresa, CEO<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0we invited a number of faith leaders to a mini-symposia on faith and leadership.\u00a0 Each participant was asked to comment on one of the eight \u201cTeresa Principles\u201d for practical leadership raised in the book.\u00a0 Our first post is from the <\/span>Fr. Paul Peter Jesep, a priest and bishop in the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and a Patheos Expert<\/a>.<\/span>]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

\u201cDiscover the Joy of Discipline\u201d is an advice chapter offered in\u00a0Mother Teresa, CEO: Unexpected Principles for Practical Leadership. <\/em>Although I wouldn\u2019t describe them as \u201cunexpected principles,\u201d or that they are always practical or lend well to every situation, the lessons offered are a reminder of values and approaches frequently overlooked or forgotten.\u00a0\u00a0In a world that swirls around us and spins our heads due in part to technology and the information age the book\u2019s eight principles offer another route for spiritual grounding.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are four basic points to the principle referenced above:\u00a0\u00a0discipline, get it done now, find joy in everything, and take the work seriously not yourself. <\/span><\/p>\n

Work or vocation both requires focus and discipline.\u00a0\u00a0Getting up before 5 AM with purpose to pursue a grueling schedule required Mother Teresa to have daily discipline, passion, and determination to do it quickly knowing that human suffering increases and doesn\u2019t take a holiday.\u00a0\u00a0Suffering can be overwhelming for the one who endures it and the individual who never stops trying to alleviate it.\u00a0\u00a0Suffering is the reality that will always be a constant, unwanted companion.\u00a0\u00a0Hence, joy must be lived by helping to lessen suffering in the selfless act of love. <\/span><\/p>\n

Seriousness should be in living with and in the pursuit of joy.\u00a0\u00a0In contrast, taking one\u2019s personal importance too serious can turn into self deceiving hubris that there is no one as or more capable to do God\u2019s work.\u00a0\u00a0The sojourner grows spiritually when accepting that all work belongs to the Holy Author.\u00a0\u00a0The pilgrim is the Creator\u2019s tool fueled with Mystical Love that discovers joy through work. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tolstoy wrote that \u201cyou would do twice, ten times, a hundred times, more than you did.\u00a0\u00a0But if you did ten thousand times ten thousand more than all men [and women] have done, what would that have been in the work of God?\u00a0\u00a0A mere nothing!\u00a0\u00a0God\u2019s work, like Himself, is infinite.\u00a0\u00a0God\u2019s work is you.\u00a0\u00a0Come to Him, and be not a laborer but a son [and daughter], and you will become a partner of the infinite God and of His world \u2026 your work will be neither small nor great, it will be God\u2019s work.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Joy should be nurtured in what some may consider the mundane.\u00a0\u00a0We need to be mindful that without what to others is dull, dreary, tedious labor there can be no joy for us.\u00a0\u00a0Grocery clerks shelve the food needed for celebrations with family and friends.\u00a0\u00a0The postal delivery person brightens the day with birthday and holiday greetings sent with love.\u00a0\u00a0The restaurant dishwasher helps provide the clean table to serve the meal where one lover will propose marriage to another.\u00a0\u00a0The custodian sweeps and prepares the stage after each ballet performance of Swan Lake so that the next audience will experience its magic as if it were a premiere under a star filled night. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Creator empowers us individually and collectively to be the Divine Instrument whose greatest force is in the present.\u00a0\u00a0There is no yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0There is no tomorrow, though we plan and hope for it.\u00a0\u00a0The difference made in the world is always done in the now.\u00a0\u00a0To do so, however, requires the discipline to overcome tiredness, sometimes exhaustion, selfish excuses, and distractions of far less importance demanding time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Work requires discipline and the humility to know that the Creator is using us in a special way.\u00a0\u00a0Mother Teresa worked in squalor conditions.\u00a0\u00a0She transcended herself beyond a deplorable environment.\u00a0\u00a0The joy she sought to create for herself and in the hearts of others is eternal.\u00a0\u00a0It is God\u2019s work and she was the Divine Instrument.\u00a0\u00a0It is God\u2019s enduring legacy.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s the calling that continues with each new generation of individuals who have \u201cdiscovered the joy of discipline.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Return to the Patheos Book Club on <\/em>Mother Teresa, CEO here.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Peter Jesep<\/a> sees the world through the lens of\u00a0a Christ centered Sophiologist.\u00a0 He believes\u00a0that\u00a0the Holy Spirit is Holy Sophia (Divine Wisdom).\u00a0 In so believing Paul accepts Holy Sophia\u2019s invitation as a partner to\u00a0create a better world. He is a priest and bishop in the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Ukraine\u2019s third largest Eastern Orthodox Church. He serves as the U.S.\u00a0designated spokesperson for His Beatitude Metropolitan Myfodii of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n


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