{"id":491,"date":"2009-06-05T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/06\/what-its-all-about.html"},"modified":"2009-06-05T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:23:34","slug":"what-its-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/06\/what-its-all-about.html","title":{"rendered":"What It&#8217;s All About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everyone wants to feel that&nbsp;their job has purpose and meaning, that what they do makes a difference in people&#8217;s lives. And it&#8217;s so nice&#8211;and rare for a lot of us&#8211;to have evidence that it does. Once a month our office manager at Beliefnet sends around quotes from readers of the site saying how important the site is to them. Thought I&#8217;d share some of the most recent inspiring and gratifying letters. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My name is Carol, and I was told about beliefnet through a friend.&nbsp; When I read my first article I was hooked it is all that I need!&nbsp; It is uplifting and it allows me to look at my life in a different perspective.&nbsp; Thank you so much! I feel so blessed to have been introduced to this site!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our town recently had a devastating storm which resulted in hundreds of out of town tree and power people coming from across the country to help out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was at a gas station waiting for service when I happened to notice a business card from an out of town company &#8211; the name was Godwink Tree Removal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You and your work obviously have a profound effect on people, I know, because I am one of them. Thank you for sharing your joys with the world.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Music Soothes Your Soul and Refreshes Your Spirit? A great article!&nbsp; I truly believe in the healing power of music and definately connected with your &#8220;create music, speak to a higher power&#8221;&nbsp; In 2007 I asked for a new direction in prayer and faith took a leap into music and it has been rough, but what a beautiful thing to provide something to people that heals or just makes them feel better!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed visiting BeliefNet.com.&nbsp; You&#8217;ve certainly put together a great website with so many useful articles.&nbsp; I particularly enjoyed reading Lynda Fassa&#8217;s post on &#8220;Raising Green Kids&#8221; in your Holistic Living section.&nbsp; It&#8217;s taken me at least an hour to drag myself away from the site and write this email! Please keep up the informative and inspiring content!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel like your work is making a difference? 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