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About VocationYour vocation is how you use your talents in your everyday life to servehumanity. Its your unique function in society. It's how you integrate your essence with the world as you "grow up". It's what you make of yourself. Or as theologian Frederick Buerchner said it's "the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. The concept of vocation cuts across time and cultures. Groups as diverse as Calvinists, Muslims, Catholics, Buddhists, and contemporary American psychologists, theologians and astrologers have believed and do believe that every person is called to special activity. The Buddhists call it right livelihood, while Cotton Mather, a Puritan preacher, spoke of a "settled business" wherein a Christian should spend his time so that he could glorify God by doing good for himself. As M. Scott Peck states in "A World Waiting to be Born: Civility Rediscovered", pursuing your vocation gives a sense of being in the right place at the right time, and not pursuing vocation gives a feeling of dis-ease. Many religious people believe that answering the call to their vocation meant the salvation of the world. (salvation in ancient Greek and Hebrew meant, respectively "healing", and "bringing into a spacious place", implying freedom, and deliverance from danger.) How can anyone save the world by following their vocation? By meeting the world's greatest hunger. Right now there is a disease called colony collapse disorder which is decimating the world's honeybees, and threatening the pollination of fruit, nut, and vegetable crops. Right now, people are being called to new activities to address this problem, whether by pollinating crops by hand, as is being done in China, or by studying the causes of and cures for this problem, as is being done by scientists across the world. Humans are intensely social creatures; society a woven fabric of humanity. That fabric is torn, just a little, every time someone is not in their right place, and that in turn, makes the world just a little more mean. Vocation is what you are striving to be, the challenge that you agreed to pursue in coming to earth. Your vocation defines your function in your work, in your family, in meeting civic duties such as jury duty. Knowing your vocation is like having your own personal North Star, guiding you in all your life decisions. Finding your vocation is about being all you can be. It's about finding your deepest gladness. For more about vocation read the articles "Career versus Vocation, or"Vocation thru youth, midlife, retirement and old age ". Wishing that you accept all the blessings that you recieve Leeuba Leshia Adams Leeuba@astrochrysalis.com Back to top |
The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. Frederick Buechner |
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