Your
unique calling
"You have to start trusting your
unique vocation and allow it to grow deeper and stronger in you so it can
blossom in your community. Look at Rembrandt and van Gogh. They trusted their
vocations and did not allow anyone to lead them astray. With true Dutch
stubborness, they followed their vocations from the moment they recognised
them. They didn't bend over backwards to please their friends or enemies. Both
ended their lives in poverty, but both left humanity with gifts that could heal
the minds and hearts of many generations of people. Think of these two men and
trust that you too have a unique vocation that is worth claiming and living out
faithfully."
Henri Nouwen's reflection spurs me on to
press into my unique calling with the confidence that God has uniquely gifted
me and called me to a purpose which is beyond myself.
How are you doing at recognising, claiming
and following your unique vocation? Are there negative voices with which you
need to reckon in order to be free to follow God's calling? Do you have wise
and encouraging voices speaking into your life and spurring you on to
faithfully forge the path which is uniquely yours?
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