Pilgrim Manor is a retirement home in Grand Rapids that offers assisted living and dementia care. Rose Glatz, a 90-year-old resident, volunteers extensively at Pilgrim Manor as the volunteer coordinator and leads chapel services and activities. As a lover of jewelry, Glatz has a unique collection of rings over 70 years old. While volunteering, her duties include choosing songs for chapel and advertising services by posting fliers. Glatz also enjoys participating in the chimes choir and Bible study group at Pilgrim Manor.
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Form Vs Intent
Many students are of the view that they just need to pass their exams with the bare minimum allowed marks.
If they pass, they'll get that high school certificate or their university degree. The idea being that a high school certificate will get them into university and that a university degree will get them a job.
They miss the point of the exercise. It is not about the result but the process. The trick to learning is to master a subject, not to aim for the bare minimum.
So that when entering the job market, you're actually useful and don't have to be retrained from scratch.
Also, going for the bare minimum is the genesis of the mediocrity virus that proliferates our world. The less we expect of ourselves, the less we do and the less we expect of others.
We don't strive to stand out and make our mark in this world. We strive to fit in so that we are never challenged in any way.
The same is true for our lives and our search to connect with our creator.
We do the bare minimum. We go to church once a week. We say our five daily prayers. We practice Shabbat every Friday.
We do all these things as we're taught. And, we're taught to do them with perfect form. But that's all it is, is form. What's missing is the intention. Doing form to connect with our creator is the bare minimum.
The trick is to master this existence and put everything into doing so. The trick is to practice every day for the moment of our death. Every moment gives us that chance.
Just going through rituals by rote and doing it under the cover of a mosque, synagogue or church is not going to help 'buy our way into heaven'. The couple of minutes we spend on our rituals won't cut it.
The only point of rituals are to focus our attention on the moment so that we are aware of the presence of the creator. So that we can be in awe and gratitude and humility that we have been so blessed.
Our true self comes out in the way we relate to the world and the rest of humanity in it. Every moment gives us a chance to be graceful, grateful and use the muscle of the heart to be useful, kind and beautiful to others. Every opportunity to be kind gets us closer to our creator.
Don't look to the heavens to find your creator. Look to every human being you touch and you'll see the divine in them. You'll meet the creator.
Our intention defines us, not our form. Follow your rituals but most of all be human, be kind, be in awe and be grateful. This is the only chance you and I have of touching the creator.
Form Vs Intent
Many students are of the view that they just need to pass their exams with the bare minimum allowed marks.
If they pass, they'll get that high school certificate or their university degree. The idea being that a high school certificate will get them into university and that a university degree will get them a job.
They miss the point of the exercise. It is not about the result but the process. The trick to learning is to master a subject, not to aim for the bare minimum.
So that when entering the job market, you're actually useful and don't have to be retrained from scratch.
Also, going for the bare minimum is the genesis of the mediocrity virus that proliferates our world. The less we expect of ourselves, the less we do and the less we expect of others.
We don't strive to stand out and make our mark in this world. We strive to fit in so that we are never challenged in any way.
The same is true for our lives and our search to connect with our creator.
We do the bare minimum. We go to church once a week. We say our five daily prayers. We practice Shabbat every Friday.
We do all these things as we're taught. And, we're taught to do them with perfect form. But that's all it is, is form. What's missing is the intention. Doing form to connect with our creator is the bare minimum.
The trick is to master this existence and put everything into doing so. The trick is to practice every day for the moment of our death. Every moment gives us that chance.
Just going through rituals by rote and doing it under the cover of a mosque, synagogue or church is not going to help 'buy our way into heaven'. The couple of minutes we spend on our rituals won't cut it.
The only point of rituals are to focus our attention on the moment so that we are aware of the presence of the creator. So that we can be in awe and gratitude and humility that we have been so blessed.
Our true self comes out in the way we relate to the world and the rest of humanity in it. Every moment gives us a chance to be graceful, grateful and use the muscle of the heart to be useful, kind and beautiful to others. Every opportunity to be kind gets us closer to our creator.
Don't look to the heavens to find your creator. Look to every human being you touch and you'll see the divine in them. You'll meet the creator.
Our intention defines us, not our form. Follow your rituals but most of all be human, be kind, be in awe and be grateful. This is the only chance you and I have of touching the creator.
1. Pilgrim Manor is a retirement community located in Grand Rapids that houses elderly people in all different stages of life. There is an assisted living section and a wing for patients with dementia.
2. Rose Glatz, 90, who lives at Pilgrim Manor also volunteers at the home as well. Glatz is the volunteer coordinator and also is heavily involved with the chapel services and activities that take place at the home.
3. Being 90 years old and a lover of jewelry, Glatz has a very unique collection of pieces. Both of these rings are over 70 years old; one was given to her upon graduating high school, the other an heirloom from a relative.
4. While working as a volunteer, Glatz has many duties. Choosing songs and preparing the music for chapel stories is among them.
5. Glatz has her own office at the MAnor and she is expected to keep up with it on her own. One duty she has is changing the ink cartridges in her printer to keep it in working condition. This is important because having a working printer in her office saves her the long walk with her walker to use to receptionist's printer.
6. To advertise for the chapel services that she helps to plan, Glatz makes fliers and spends time walking all over the facility posting them up on bulletin boards.
7. The Pilgrim Manor chimes choir, which Glatz is an active member of, practices weekly and performs at various chapel services throughout the year.
8. "We aren't very good, but we have a lot of fun." Glatz says of the Pilgrim Singers, the choir at Pilgrim Manor. At practice one week, Glatz is helping a friend who tends to lose her place in the music while singing.
9. "It's a really nice group of people that show up," Glatz said describing a few residents that meet for a weekly Bible study. The group is currently studying through the book of Leviticus.
10. Glatz is enjoying a good laugh with another resident and a few students from Cornerstone University. Glatz organized a weekly dominos and SkipBo playing game time.
11. Despite her active lifestyle, Glatz is starting to feel as if her age is catching up with her. She has decided to start phasing out from all of her office and paperwork. Her main focus will be the chapel and she said she will get to pursue more leisurely activities, "I really love to knit so I will have more time for that."