Spring  

Our Unique Call


So many terrible things happen every day that we start wondering whether the few things we do ourselves make any sense. When people are starving only a few thousand miles away, when wars are raging close to our borders, when countless people in our cities have no homes to live in, our own activities look futile. Such considerations, however, can paralyze and depress us.
 
Here the word call becomes important. We are not called to save the world, solve all problems, and help all people. But each of us has our own unique call, in our families, in our work, in our world. We have to keep asking God to help us see clearly what our call is and to give us the strength to live out that call with trust. Then we will discover that our faithfulness to a small task is the most healing response to the illness of our time.


Taken from:
Bread for the Journey
A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
By Henri J.M. Nouwen


by Marilyn Vinson McAfee
Evangelism/Service Chair
Daughters of the King
Province VII

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