Listening to Your Life — Frederick Buechner
You encountered a deep sense that life was calling out to you, seeking to include you.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Listen to your life,” Frederick Buechner wrote.4 “See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
That insight is hidden in the word vocation itself, which is rooted in the Latin for "voice." Vocation does not mean a goal that I pursue. It means a calling that I hear.
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
The present moment is the only place we experience ourselves as being alive, the only place we experience our lives at all. The walk through the forest—the focus on the path, on the process of life, rather than on some goal or end that exists beyond the present-tense reality of our lives—this is the answer God provided for this student.