Living with Intention
Soul Matters Theme for January

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it,
listen for what it intends to do with you.
 
Before you tell your life what truths and values you have
decided to live up to, let your life tell you what
truths you embody, what values you represent.

—  Parker J. Palmer
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

Parker J. Palmer is a writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in spirituality, education, community, leadership, and social change. He is founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal, which offers long-term retreat programs for people in the serving professions, including teachers, administrators, physicians, philanthropists, non-profit leaders and clergy. Palmer is the author of many books, including several award-winning titles that have been translated into ten languages including The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, The Active Life, To Know As We Are Known, and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old.