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Sunday Worship
By lmhall | April 6, 2008
Quiet in the garden on Sunday morning. As our intern tries to focus on career opportunities, we (me, myself, and I) were thinking about our own. Even though we have a project stalled, and urngarden.com, was supposed to be a sideline business, keeps us a little busier than planned… we’re able to focus on what’s really important: creating a beautiful life.
2008. My goal for this year is to determine the fate of the Urn Garden. I left my full time job in 2004. Urn Garden had been in place very part time for about a year or so. I was planning on a career change, probably as a funeral director.
Something about it didn’t feel right though, and a trusted mentor who was helping with my research talked me off the funeral director path and told me to stick with what I was doing. He is a retired funeral director, who managed five funeral homes for 30 years in this area. He was shocked that I was selling way more urns than all of his funeral homes combined. Part-time.
And now, I’m so grateful for his advice.
For the first time in my life, I feel like I’m doing something rewarding, and making a contribution to society. Not Fun. And I have the utmost respect for the men and women who have made funeral service their career choice.
I love owning my own business. And I hope I never have to go back to the corporate world. All along, I’ve kept a toe in the water of THE WORLD to expose myself to the elements. And remind myself.
How lucky I am.
Blessed.
And thankful that I listened.
For once.
Peace be with you.
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