vocation

I never really thought about the landscape of my life. But Garber’s book turned me upside down. I am grateful for the opportunity I had of growing up in a small country, slower than many other places in its rural ways, where time does not lord over us, but allows us to sit, converse, discuss and rest. To attend to the other, see them and know deeply. I grew up in many living rooms, hospital waiting areas, simply because my family knew, saw and cared. This has profoundly shaped the landscape of my life, and in my ways, my sense of vocation seems to have gotten lost and mixed up after moving to a fast-paced, info-glut culture. Too many options, too many decisions to be made, productivity and money sitting at the throne. The other far away, sitting at a distance, and my hand feeling far from able to reach out. But this renewed sense of vocation is freeing - aligning gifts, talents, passions, yearnings and desires to what is seen, touched, heard, known. Going from there to meet the needs of the world, to respond to the other, humanizing one and myself.