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. This week's go-to is an excerpt from a new book from my friend and probably yours too,

Kate Bowler. She has been on the podcast many times and put the link to the episodes

in the show notes if you want to dig in.

She has a new book it's called Have a Beautiful Terrible Day. As you might know she had a stage four

cancer diagnosis which put her on the receiving end of a lot of what she thinks

of a toxic positivity, and so she is forever reminding us that life is filled with ups, downs, and a lot of in-betweens.

She's also a divinity professor at Duke,

and the author of a book many of us I suspect have read,

everything happens for a reason, and other lies I've loved.

The book is essentially a collection of blessings and reflections.

There are 89 total, I thought I'd share two with you today.

The first is for when you are not your best self.

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