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Are You Wholehearted?

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield By Allan Ramsay - National Portrait Gallery: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/index.php?curid=6356695 In March of 1746, British statesman and 4 th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, said, “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.” [1] All my life I’ve heard that quote or a variation of it. What does this saying mean? To me , it means doing things with your  whole heart . So, let me ask, do you do things with a whole heart ? And if you do, what is it? Some give their whole heart to doing  T h a n k s g i v i n g  and  C h r i s t m a s  right. And some, like me, barely squeak by. I’m sure there are things I do with my whole heart , yet at the moment, I can’t think of one. So what does it mean to do something with a whole heart? As soon as I asked that question my fifth-grade training kicked in, “When in doubt, look it up!” I’m high-tech now. I don’t actually use a book, I use Google!  I t