The Other Great Resignation

       “It’s a hard time to be human.  
         We know too much, and too little”
              (The World Has Need of You  by Ellen Bass)

In The Curly Pyjama Letters (by Michael Leunig), a young adventurer and explorer, Vasco Pyjama, asks a wise elder, Mr Curly, "What is worth doing? and, "What is worth having?"

With the stressors that have complicated life over the last couple of years (Drought, Bushfires, Pandemic, Social Disruption, Flooding Rain etc), I know a lot of people, young and old, who have been asking these same questions.  

The response to these questions has been called, "The Great Resignation" because so many have changed what they are doing, and how they are doing it.  My observations from moving in and out of workplaces and listening to people is that "The Great Resignation" is the "Tip of the Iceberg", the bit that is most visible.  

Below the surface, another great resignation is taking shape.  It is being resigned to being stuck; a lack of fulfilment; not having visible options; restlessness; dissatisfaction and lingering unhappiness.  These things are soul-destroying.

This is why ongoing Formation is so important in spite of everything else that must be done.  Formation is a deliberate, structured engagement of the questions that, persistently and inconveniently, gnaw at us. Engaging with these things is the pathway to refining our purpose and finding meaning in what we do with the work of our lives.

​Formation is a great investment in discerning "What is worth doing? and "What is worth having?"

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