How can I know what God wants me to do with my life? A good, but tough question. The question seems to imply that there is only one path for one’s life, one road less traveled. Probably this question emerges out of wrestling with “vocational” issues. So, lets go at it this way. I have a hunch that we tend to confuse the “vocation” of one’ life with the “occupations” of one’s life. Vocation has to do with responding, as best we know how — some days pretty well and some days pretty poorly — to the prodding, urging, nudging, whispers which emerge from the Voice in the shrubs that burn in ones life. “Occupations” are how one lives out the whispers of a Voice, the nudging of a shadow. It might be that it takes the form of plumber or priest, banker or environmentalist, caregiver or caretaker. The point is, it doesn’t matter which — it only matters how
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:06:45 +0000
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