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Four Scary Facts about A Purpose-Driven Life
Perhaps you have found a personal sense of purpose.
Perhaps you are still looking.
Or perhaps you have never given it much thought.
One of my favorite quotes on finding one’s vocation ties in with the theme of purpose:
Vocation.
It comes from the Latin vocare, to call, and means the work a man is called to by God. There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of Society, say, or the Super-ego, or Self-interest.
By and large a good rule for finding out is this.
The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done. …
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner
I discovered that quote about the same time I discovered my latest purpose.
Yes, I said latest …
I’m learning that you might not find a single purpose and stick to it for the rest of your life.
In my life, it developed something like this: two days before my 12th birthday, I determined that I wanted to serve God and my fellow man … somehow.
