That insight is hidden in the word vocation itself, which is rooted in the Latin for "voice." Vocation does not mean a goal that I pursue. It

we must embrace what we dislike or find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confidentand proud of.

Vocation does not come from a voice "out there" calling me to become something I am not. It comes from a voice "in here" calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.

I ask them instead to help each other see how limitations and liabilities are the flip side of our gifts, how a particular weakness is the inevitable trade-off for a particular strength.

authentic selfhood.

find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confidentand proud

there is a great gulf between the way my ego wants to identify me, with its protective masks and self-serving fictions, and my true self.

wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me. If you catch one reading a book in private, it is most likely to be a novel, some poetry, a mystery, or an essay that defies classification, rather than a text directly related to whatever I am writing at the time.There is some vir

two at the base of a tree, the creature we are waiting for may well emerge, and out of the corner of an eye we will catch a glimpse of the precious wildness we seek.