Frederick Buechner famously wrote that vocation is “where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet,” and everyone thinking about vocation ever since then has had to deal with the fallout of that pithy summary. For better or worse, it’s a touch-point for thinking vocation that cannot be forgotten once encountered.
Where do you locate these intersections of death and vocation in your search for God in memory? I see them in Mary at the tomb, dumbfounded by death of illusions and her new life of vocation to tell all. Also, I encounter intersections of the two wherever I have resisted acknowledging the death of relationships because I fear listening to the call that grows inside.
Where do you locate these intersections of death and vocation in your search for God in memory? I see them in Mary at the tomb, dumbfounded by death of illusions and her new life of vocation to tell all. Also, I encounter intersections of the two wherever I have resisted acknowledging the death of relationships because I fear listening to the call that grows inside.
Quite a blend!
Richard Groves. in _The American Book of Living and Dying_, notes 4 Spiritual Pains we wrestle with at End of Life.
Meaning pain
Forgiveness pain
Relatedness pain
Hopelessness pain
I can very well see Meaning pain and Vocation being of the same chord.