The Price of Discipleship

Don't resist life changes that can bring you closer to God

Last Wednesday, I quit my job of 20 years. I wasn’t really planning on it, though I’d been flirting with the idea of doing something else for a while now.

It’s funny how, when I look at my life, a pattern emerges.

In Germany, when I worked in advertising, the more my spiritual life—that is, my engagement in New Age spirituality—evolved, the less I wanted to work in this pseudo-glamour industry where truth was a rare commodity and everyone was obsessed with winning a trophy in Cannes… kinda like the Hollywood glitterati are obsessed with winning their Oscars and Golden Globes.

That was ages ago. This time around, I felt that the more religious I became—the more the “practicing” in “practicing Catholic” actually started to mean something—the less I wanted to work in the financial newsletter industry. It’s certainly not the worst business to work in, but I was beginning to dread the perpetual focus on money and the associated sentiments like greed, fear, and FOMO (fear of missing out on the “next hot stock”).