Religion

She calls herself, at least she is known as, “the divine Bette Midler.” Some would take umbrage at her audacity and seek a more self-deprecating nomenclature. Others would applaud her authenticity and find glee in her sense of true humility. She is divine, it is true. So are we. Divinity dances in our humanity. Sadly, we prefer a more sedate step with a bow and scrape to assert our lowliness. 

Doing a job, performing a task, whether it is via volunteerism or for a paycheck has often been relegated to a “less-than-holy” status. As a result, folks frequently consider their life devoid of deep meaning and lacking a spiritual base. Zilong Wang would consider this to be an unfortunate misunderstanding. Wang labels it a false duality, one to which he had fallen prey before taking a second look at life. As he put it, “In my mind, I had created an unnecessary duality between “holding a job” and “living to serve.”

Vanita Hampton Wright once wrote: “Sometimes we make prayer difficult because we separate it from what is concrete in daily life. We develop the attitude that prayer is supposed to be something in the mind and heart, a spiritual equality hard to define and somewhat elusive to experience.”