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DIEGO ORTIZ MUGICA, [email protected]
steps to finding your vocation by Brother David Steindl-Rast,
“WE ARE LIKE so many different soap bubbles, all filled with one and the same divine lifebreath.”
O.S.B.
It’s as simple as ask, trust, stop, listen, and respond. Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B. is a Benedictine monk, an author and l e c t u r e r, a n d the cofounder of gratefulness. org.
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ID YOU KNOW THAT THE WORD VOCATION is related to the term “vocal cords” and means “a calling”? More precisely it means spending your life doing what your innermost heart feels called to do. To follow a vocation means living your own unique life. That’s of course what all of us would like to accomplish, but how shall we do it? If we ask people who are doing what they really love to do, “How did you get to where you are?” we find that many of them started by asking themselves some basic questions 1. What would I really like to do? 2. What am I good at doing or learning? 3. What opportunity is life offering me, right now, for doing what makes me come joyfully alive? Thus they started with themselves, with their own gifts and preferences.
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Ask what makes you come alive
Does starting with yourself sound selfish to you? If so you are most likely concerned with serving the world. That is certainly a worthwhile goal, and a most important one. But do you have the right approach? Howard Thurman, an outstanding civil rights activist, author of Jesus and the Disinherited, and a mentor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave this advice: “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” So what is it that makes you come alive? Whatever your answer it will point toward that way of serving the world for which you are best suited. When you do that, you ex-
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DIEGO ORTIZ MUGICA, [email protected]
steps to finding your vocation by Brother David Steindl-Rast,
“WE ARE LIKE so many different soap bubbles, all filled with one and the same divine lifebreath.”
O.S.B.
It’s as simple as ask, trust, stop, listen, and respond. Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B. is a Benedictine monk, an author and l e c t u r e r, a n d the cofounder of gratefulness. org.
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ID YOU KNOW THAT THE WORD VOCATION is related to the term “vocal cords” and means “a calling”? More precisely it means spending your life doing what your innermost heart feels called to do. To follow a vocation means living your own unique life. That’s of course what all of us would like to accomplish, but how shall we do it? If we ask people who are doing what they really love to do, “How did you get to where you are?” we find that many of them started by asking themselves some basic questions 1. What would I really like to do? 2. What am I good at doing or learning? 3. What opportunity is life offering me, right now, for doing what makes me come joyfully alive? Thus they started with themselves, with their own gifts and preferences.
12 | VISION 2015 | VocationNetwork.org
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Enter #042 at VocationMatch.com
Ask what makes you come alive
Does starting with yourself sound selfish to you? If so you are most likely concerned with serving the world. That is certainly a worthwhile goal, and a most important one. But do you have the right approach? Howard Thurman, an outstanding civil rights activist, author of Jesus and the Disinherited, and a mentor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave this advice: “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” So what is it that makes you come alive? Whatever your answer it will point toward that way of serving the world for which you are best suited. When you do that, you ex-
Enter #230 at VocationMatch.com VocationNetwork.org | VISION 2015 | 13
