Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

 Audio here . Good morning and welcome to thought for the day. If you are into sport you will know the name of Scottie Scheffler. The American is the world’s current No1 golfer having won an Olympic gold, three majors, the US PGA championship and the British Open championship. Well for a guy who has been world number one for well over 100 weeks, and who has earned more than £67M in prize money, you might be quite surprised to hear him say “This is not a fulfilling life”. What? Fame, fortune, global success, and he says it’s not fulfilling? “It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment” the 29 year old says, “but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart” [1] . "There are a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfil them in life, and you get there, you get to number one in the world, and they're like, 'what's the point? I really do believe that because, what is the point? Why do I want to win this tournament ...

 Click here for audio... I watched a great programme the other day with my family. It’s called Undercover Boss. Some of you may have seen it. It features the CEO of a large company putting on a disguise and working as a low level employee of his own business to see how his workers get on. In the episode I saw, Todd Pederson, CEO of Vivint (a large tech company in the US) don long hair and a fake beard to work undercover alongside others. He was shocked to see that Ed wasn’t given the correct protective equipment to work on a roof, Alma didn’t have enough support in the warehouse, and one employee Will wasn’t given any time off work when his wife faced cancer surgery. His time as undercover boss allowed him to make some changes to how the company functioned, and he was willing personally to pay thousands of dollars to alleviate certain situations of suffering that he found his new friends in, including legal battles, hospital treatment, and for one family helping them to purch...