How "the world" thinks

 I read Chapter 11 in Tao Te Ching this week and it was the focus on my meditations. I condensed it here:

               Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;

                  It is the center hole that makes it useful.

              Shape the clay into a vessel;

                  It is the space within that makes it useful.

 

               Therefore profit comes from what is there;

                    Usefulness from what is not there. 

 

 The world so often focuses on "profit".  What is tangible is easy to measure.  You can create metrics/ worth and value.  What is less tangible is harder to measure so is often ignored or relegated to lip service. Yet culture and integrity are very "useful" to an organization though almost impossible to measure.  There are a couple of great companies and leaders that understand this but they are few and far between.

If you can make more money that is what you should do regardless of how you do it.  That is how the world thinks.  But God doesn't think like the world.  He lives in the hole and the space.  He wants us to bring His kingdom a little closer to the world today by helping others.  That is how we are useful.  

 

 

Pax

 

Joe