Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order is a story I've shared on the pod before usually at this time of year because I'm thinking about all those kids hearing back from all those colleges and I just don't know if I'll ever stop

sharing it because I'm so sensitive to the fact that every day people of all ages

are being rejected from something. Some school they wanted to go to, sure,

or a job promotion they were gunning for,

or a relationship they hoped would go the distance.

It happens over and over again,

and the natural reaction is to think something bad is happening

And I just know from talking to hundreds of people for this podcast and hundreds of friends over the years

that oftentimes those low moments, those wicked rejections turn out to be the

beginnings of something unimaginably awesome.

So I'll share this story one more time in the hopes

that those days when you think something has happened

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