From Prodigal Kiwis:
“This led me to revisit my own understanding of the vocation … question, and I finally asked it the right way. What I asked myself was this: is there anything in my life that I have always felt called or compelled to do, any drive or impulse that I have ultimately been able to ignore?... I can ignore it, but it does not go away. I am happier when I am following it than when I am not. It is something that gives me a sense of integrity and meaning…” (Gregory Augustine Pierce).
2 comments:
And what was your answer?
Is it still lion taming?
For me it's writing. Even though it really scares me.
Yes Sue, writing scares me too. So much that I keep nearly stopping. And then people like you remind me that this monologue can be part of a dialogue. Thank you.
I think lion-taming represents my desire to live and die heroically. It's a way of snatching meaning out of the jaws of cosmic insignificance.
I haven't given up on the notion of life as an offering, a giving back, to God. I can't improve on Wesley's great words:
"Still let me prove thy perfect will,
My acts of faith and love repeat;
Till death thy endless mercies seal,
And make the sacrifice complete."
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