We invited Bill and Angela Schnieders on to talk to us about their stories and how they have been pursuing their dreams. Bill left a stress-filled job in the tech industry to live on productive land, and Angela has pursued ongoing formation and her dreams for years...and then they met and got married!
I don't think we reference as many works in this episode, but here are some things to check out:
Bill and Angela are Catholic speakers, and here is their website: http://billandangela.com/
Angela is also very involved with the Woman School: https://thewomanschool.teachable.com/
If you'd like to read a super-short book about the power of dreams and connecting what we're doing now to the dreams we have, check out Matthew Kelly's book The Dream Manager: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401303706/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_zF1NEbEJFYKK3
As a final note, we talk a lot about 'desire' in the podcast, and we talked with Bill and Angela after we finished recording how a lot of people are uncomfortable with the language of entertaining our desires. Perhaps the better word would be 'hopes', as a hope is a desire that will take effort/risk, and that's the category of desire that I think we're talking about. There is some equivocation on the word 'desire', as both a generic word for something that moves us to action, and a particular word for what our passions produce in us. Clearly, we were talking about desires that move us, and the process of discerning what is worth submitting to our intellectual appetite, i.e. our will.
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As always,
