With over 20 years as a life coach, I have concluded that people don’t really “find” themselves. We build ourselves, and one day might realize that we actually like who we have built.
I resonate with your comments about significance, and my wife points out that I do more to help people than I think I do. My life has been an adventure of figuring out what I want to be when I grow up, and I’m still figuring. Perhaps some of us have a vocation of living the adventure, always on a journey to a destination that keeps changing throughout our lives?
I once heard a sermon about how the shadow of Saint Peter fell upon the sick, and they were healed. The preacher pointed out that, at that time of day and location, Peter‘s shadow would fall behind him, and he might not have seen the healings taking place as he walked. I perceive, John, that you cast a long shadow. Maybe your adventure vocation for now is to simply keep walking?
Thanks, Mack. Interesting thought here about a vocation of occupying many different roles in different seasons of life. I was thinking just this morning that the assumption often seems to be that vocation is a fixed and identifiable thing, and that one can discover it and settle down into it for the long hall. But many people's lives don't seems to take that shape. You're suggesting that may be because some have a vocation of keeping moving, so to speak. That certainly seems possible.
Looking forward to reading more about this. Thanks John.
With over 20 years as a life coach, I have concluded that people don’t really “find” themselves. We build ourselves, and one day might realize that we actually like who we have built.
I resonate with your comments about significance, and my wife points out that I do more to help people than I think I do. My life has been an adventure of figuring out what I want to be when I grow up, and I’m still figuring. Perhaps some of us have a vocation of living the adventure, always on a journey to a destination that keeps changing throughout our lives?
I once heard a sermon about how the shadow of Saint Peter fell upon the sick, and they were healed. The preacher pointed out that, at that time of day and location, Peter‘s shadow would fall behind him, and he might not have seen the healings taking place as he walked. I perceive, John, that you cast a long shadow. Maybe your adventure vocation for now is to simply keep walking?
Thanks, Mack. Interesting thought here about a vocation of occupying many different roles in different seasons of life. I was thinking just this morning that the assumption often seems to be that vocation is a fixed and identifiable thing, and that one can discover it and settle down into it for the long hall. But many people's lives don't seems to take that shape. You're suggesting that may be because some have a vocation of keeping moving, so to speak. That certainly seems possible.