{"id":3540,"date":"2011-06-23T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2011-06-23T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:31:06","slug":"faith-work-is-god-present-in-our-daily-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/06\/faith-work-is-god-present-in-our-daily-lives","title":{"rendered":"Faith @ Work: Is God present in our daily lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt from Washington Post On Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By J. Douglas Holladay<\/strong><br \/>\nHubris and arrogance should have little quarter in the lives of those with animating and authentic faith; yet I have observed in myself and others something quite troubling. And though it is a patently false idea, it has been embraced by believers. I am referring to the notion that the unenlightened (non-believers) wander aimlessly through life devoid of any sense whatsoever of spiritual reality until I (we) burst on to the scene and into their sorry lives. It is then that we the \u201cinitiated\u201d or enlightened explain the \u2018truth\u2019 to the lost ones. Such thinking places the agency of change in human hands rather than God\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly hold that those with a genuine faith have the responsibility, rather, privilege, to share the \u201dgood news\u201d in a loving way; yet I am referring to something far deeper. If we embrace the orthodox notion that all are made in the image of God, is it unthinkable that God through many varied and mysterious channels is attempting to connect with His created? (This is like buying a company with no investment banker in the middle!)<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s ways of transmitting to mankind is diverse \u2013 perhaps through a thunderstorm, an internal prompting, or some life threatening experience. It seems to me that the wonder of God is that we cannot box Him in and assume that we know the way that God communicates truth and love. After all, doesn\u2019t Scripture teach that if God has no witness that the very stones will cry out? And didn\u2019t God speak (in the book of Numbers, Old Testament) through a donkey? How\u2019s that for humbling the proud?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/guest-voices\/post\/faith-at-work-is-god-present-in-our-daily-lives\/2011\/06\/23\/AG3J2JhH_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>J. Douglas Holladay is founder of PathNorth, which serves as a resource for business leaders to bring meaning and fresh perspective to both work and life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Washington Post On Faith By J. Douglas Holladay Hubris and arrogance should have little quarter in the lives of those with animating and authentic faith; yet I have observed in myself and others something quite troubling. And though it is a patently false idea, it has been embraced by believers. 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