Something to ponder...on a humorous note, when I think about my deepest gladness, bed and sleep are somewhere on my list! Yet, I doubt that's where it meets the hunger of the world, so naps are likely not my vocation.
Truly though...what then is vocation? When am I most deeply glad? Lately, I am the happiest when I am working in the garden or on a project. While I am not an artist, taking pictures, gardening, making things: all these acts of creativity I find peaceful and joyfully fulfilling. I do not find it unrelated that as a child of God (the Creator), the most joy I experience is in acts that bring beauty. Might creativity and desire for beauty be a visible aspect of the Imago Dei, the Image-of-God-ness in each of us?
Vocation is a strong word. Coming from latin: vocare, to call, and must be quite different from occupation, which would then be whatever keeps me busy, occupied. What I am called to do as a child of God is to live as one created in the Image of God. Far cry from what we normally translate as vocation...but I am only a pastor because I am appointed as one, it is my occupation. I can succeed or fail at my vocation while being a pastor...but I assume that pursuing vocation will positively affect occupation.
Any thoughts?
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