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Did you know I used to do career counseling and offer job search strategies to help people find worthy work? This was what I was doing before Heavenletters came along.

As I look back now, I see that so much of the work job-seekers and I did together parallels some of the knowledge that God in Heavenletters offers us.

There are two main ways I notice the similarities:

Both Heavenletters and job search are about: (1) Finding out who we are and then (2) looking beyond ourselves.

God reminds us often that we don’t know who we are. We simply don’t know our own value.

In terms of the world, this was never more true than for people who are out of work and, sometimes, even desperate. Understandably, when you're out of work, it's not always so easy to feel so good about yourself. My job was to help people regain a sense of their worth.

So, in the work I did, I helped job-seekers know how to answer certain questions, how to go for and get a higher salary, for example. but it really wasn’t so much about what I taught my clients to say as it was helping them truthfully start to feel better about themselves. Then their words had power behind them. Then they didn't need to be anything but what they were. How simple.

In Heavenletters, God seems to tell us not to think about ourselves so much. Definitely not to sacrifice, but to think bigger and just not always put ourselves first.

The key to good job search, as I saw it, lay in putting yourself aside and putting the prospective employer’s needs before yours. Actually, this was the way to get your needs filled.

On a very practical level, before you can fill an employer’s needs, you have to know what his needs are, so we would go at job search as if we were already working for the employer. Just as when you have a job and go to work, you aren't thinking: "What do I want to do today?" You're thinking: "What has to be done now?"

Although there are parallels between Heavenletters and what I used to do, I find I don’t get great joy talking about job-search the way I used to, and certainly not the joy I do when I talk about Heavenletters.

There is lots more I could tell you, but I think I’ll stick with Heavenletters from now on.