Let your Life Speak

by Parker J. Palmer P.16

Frederick Buechner asserts when he defines vocation as "the place where your deep gladness mets the world's deep need."
Buechner's definition starts with the self and moves toward the needs of the world: it begins, wisely, where vocation begins - not in what the world needs (which is everything), but in the nature of the human self, in what brings the self joy, the deep joy of knowing that we are here on earth to be the gifts that God created.