Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

see-that the life I am living is not the same as the life that wants to live in me. In

expectations held by people who are not trying to discern our selfhood but to fit us into slots.

"Ask me whether what I have done is my life." For

"Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent."

the words we speak often contain counsel we are trying to give ourselves.

saying, "Let your life speak."

I had started to understand that it is indeed possible to live a life other than one's own. Fearful

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

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 means a calling that I hear.