Ministry Appropriating Issues on Responses to Life and Vocations

Sunday, May 11, 2014

"Many people have a wrong idea

OF WHAT CONSTITUTE
HAPPINESS...

HAPPINESS

IS NOT AN ATTAINMENT

THROUGH SELF GRATIFICATION...

BUT THROUGH FIDELITY

TO A

WORTHY PURPOSE."

HELEN KELLER

MAY WE ALWAYS BE SUSTAINED BY
GOD'S ABIDING LOVE
ON OUR LIFE'S JOURNEY!

"OUR DEEPEST CALLING IS TO GROW

INTO OUR AUTHENTIC SELVES..."

that is to say,

OUR REAL VOCATION IN LIFE

is "TO BE IN THE PLACE"

where "OUR DEEP GLADNESS"

meets the "WORLD'S NEEDS."

-Frederick Buechner-

"Clear our heart, O God,

that we may see you.

Clear our heart, O God

that we may truly see ourselves.

Clear our heart, O God,

that we may see the sacredness

of this moment and in every moment.

Seek you, serve you and strengthen you

as a Living Presence in every presence.

Clear our heart, O God, that we may see."

-John Phillip Newell, PRAYING WITH THE EARTH: A PRAYER BOOK FOR PEACE