Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

which I worked, and to a profession that is well worth doing-by those who are called to do it. T ...

committee," a process in which the group refrains from giving you advice but spends three hours ...

I responded impatiently, "Yes, yes, I'm working my way toward an answer." Then I resumed my sullen ...

name from consideration. Had I taken that job, it would have been very bad for me and a disas ...

by making known their need to be loved. For a long time, my response was instant and reflexive, born of ...

you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward." When I give ...

When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a pla ...

its consequences are built into the God-given structure of reality itself. Moral norms are not ...

teachers who want to become better at their craft. At a certain point, I ask them to write brief d ...

My gift as a teacher is the ability to "dance" with my students, to teach and learn with ...

so if I redouble my efforts, I may be able to batter it down. But that is a dangerous temptation. ...

would have laughed even harder than I did when Ruth's words exposed my inner mess. My fut ...

A PERSONAL PREFACE ...

-From THE INFERNO OF DANI'E, Robert Pinsky, trans.' Midway in my life's journey, "way closed" again, this ti ...

still find depression difficult to speak about because the experience is so unspeakable. Yet Henri's spi ...

except the burden of my own life and the exhaustion, the apparent futility, of trying to sustain it. I understa ...

were "I have no idea." My response had given her an alternative to the cruel "Christian explanations ...

forces that seems alien but is in fact one's deepest self. It means waiting, watching, listenin ...

them acted like Job's comforters-the friends who came to job in his misery and offered "sy ...

Then there were the visitors who began by saying, "I know exactly how you feel...." Whatever ...