Sublime

reassurances that none is disqualified from coming to him by weakness and unworthiness.

the best book written on the subject of personal vocation: Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer.

And ministry is never absent a spirit of fullness that takes our being into otherness and mystery. Pointing to this sense of ministry, John Zizioulas says powerfully, “Faith is thus an attitude of gratitude to every Other and of doxology to the Other par excellence, the author of all otherness. This kind of faith offers no security of rational conv

God is the objective reality of personhood.

He dreamed that someday some all-knowing mentor would sit him down and not only tell him how to live but why he was here. But his Moses never came. Of course he could never come, because you can only discover your vocation by doing it, and seeing if it feels right.

The character and compassion of a minister more than the characteristics of the message preached determine the quality of the message heard.

Talent makes an individual a celebrity, but giftedness sends her out into the world as minister. Giftedness makes her able to share in the being of God by using her God-given gifts to minister to her neighbor, bringing pleasure and joy to God, who is the triune community of ministry. So giftedness leads us out to continue to share, again and again,

Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.”