Listening to Your Life — Frederick Buechner
The philosopher Frederick Buechner defined vocation, or life mission, as “the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Martha Beck • Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
I see the world as a vast, living, breathing organism of which we are but a small part. You and I are cells in God’s body, and the best thing we can do is learn to perform our function to the best of our ability. In my experience, the surest way of doing that is to listen to our authentic desires—what the Bible calls the desires of our hearts. They... See more
Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
“Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about — quite apart from what I would like it to be about — or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions"1 PARKER PALMER
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
Let’s be men and women who keep our ears pressed gently against the heart of God, willing to respond to faint whispers and small nudges, and even have an openness to be the wink of God for someone else.
Emily P. Freeman • The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions
engage the mind and the heart and discern the presence of God in the here and now. The connection between the two creates a current of awareness that helps move our focus away from our own wants and desires to the wants and desires of God: that we stay awake, listen, serve, and love our neighbors in their suffering and in spite of our own.