{"id":1829,"date":"2025-02-09T21:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2025-02-09T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:13:21","slug":"how-will-you-measure-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"How will you measure your life?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All are warmly invited to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0in our new\u00a0series,\u00a0<em>Spiritual Perspectives on Hot Topics<\/em>,\u00a0an opportunity for people of various backgrounds and faiths to come together and discuss complex and\/or challenging issues from a faith perspective.\u00a0&#8220;<strong>How Will You Measure Your Life?&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>will take place:\u00a0<br><br>Sunday, Feb. 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2:00 \u2013 4:00 pm<br><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/zkYr2EnipNr437de8\">2990 Quadra St., Victoria<\/a>\u00a0<br><br>Most of us would say that the most important things\u00a0in life are our families and relationships. We\u2019d probably also admit that getting it right is\u00a0more difficult than ever these days. Yet it&#8217;s essential to our health and happiness. Clayton Christenson, a professor at Harvard University, regularly spoke to his business students on the importance of\u00a0relationships, sometimes moving them to tears. Our speaker\u00a0Richard Rush will share that profoundly helpful philosophy of life with us, followed by discussion in small groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Spiritual-Perspectives-23feb25-slide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Spiritual-Perspectives-23feb25-slide-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Spiritual-Perspectives-23feb25-slide-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Spiritual-Perspectives-23feb25-slide-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Spiritual-Perspectives-23feb25-slide-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Spiritual-Perspectives-23feb25-slide-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Spiritual-Perspectives-23feb25-slide-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Spiritual-Perspectives-23feb25-slide.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is free, sponsored by VMS and hosted in the spacious Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints&nbsp;on Quadra St, with thanks in advance for their kind hospitality. Light refreshments will be provided. <br><br>The parking lot can be accessed from both Quadra St. and the Spruce Ave. side street.<br><br><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanopy.com\/en\/gvpl\/video\/14777077\">Clayton Christenson video \u201cHow Will You Measure Your Life\u201d, from the public library system (Kanopy)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OZTNHEwuGuY?si=M7zO2o9aZT4DJKrH\">Do you Have a Strategy for your Life<\/a>?, TEDx BYU, Karen Dillon. We think of success in terms of work, money and esteem, but our greatest values are around family and relationships.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HAmQ7Tcrh6A?si=3a_ukCnuS9yNubKT\">Women are Not Winning<\/a>, YouTube interview with British author Louise Perry&nbsp;on some of challenges of modern-day relationships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are warmly invited to the 2nd\u00a0in our new\u00a0series,\u00a0Spiritual Perspectives on Hot Topics,\u00a0an opportunity for people of various backgrounds and faiths to come together and discuss complex and\/or challenging issues from a faith perspective.\u00a0&#8220;How Will You Measure Your Life?&#8221;\u00a0will take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}