Fred Sievert's New Website, God Revealed

I worked for many years at New York Life, where Fred rose to being the President. As a business leader he was remarkable not only for his ability to institute systems and manage people, and for the lasting  results he achieved, but also for his humor and humanity. Retiring from the company, he took a degree from Yale Divinity School. Now, he has put his life journey on line, at God Revealed, documenting his encounters with God, in moments from ordinary life, where time and eternity intersect. This urge to tell our life story, to see it as a journey with redeeming purpose, to bear witness, is so strong. Here is a numbers guy, a math major, an actuary, a former Comptroller, and what he has to tell us is that the bottom-line is the storyline and that the story hinges on intangibles, what cannot be managed or measured, but which can only be cultivated.

John Gay's epitaph, in the spirit of Diogenes, predating Oscar Wilde, penned by Gay's friend, Alexander Pope:

Life is a jest, and all things show it,

I thought so once, and now I know it.

That too is God talk. Remember man that thou art dust.

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One has to reflect on what sorts of gods life has revealed.

[Phil Cubeta]

The message and the messenger. The closest I ever came to the other-wordly was in Wealth Bondage, when Dionysus spoke to me quite clearly. He called for a carnevelequse, mock heroic, dialogic inversion of the social order. Then, again, so did Jesus. But that is not the message of this messenger, though he came up from humble beginnings. Still, he was among the best human being and manager I have met in the financial services world. A math major, I believe at Amherst. A few more courses in say modern literature, with an emphasis on Joyce and Beckett might have done wonders for the emerging religious sensibility, and a little more irony might have improved the prose, and a little more hermeneutics might have confounded the whole enterprise. But a Gospel of Wealth, the Spiritual Autobiography of Successful Person, has to be read with interpretive charity. When I come to pen mine it may be called, "Contemptus Mundi: My Journey from Failure to Failure on Fortunes Wheel."

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