Stealing another insight from Jonathan Reckford’s speech to our MPA students last week, here’s a beautiful idea on finding your calling.
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.”
The quote comes from the theologian Frederick Buechner, but this essay points to him and other authors that were new to me. Read it for a spiritual uplift and resonant ideas.
Last week in our MPA program where I teach, we had Jonathan Reckford (CEO of Habitat for Humanity International) speak to our students as our Administrator of the Year awardee. At the end of his speech, he shared a blessing that I loved but didn’t catch the attribution for. After a little digging, I was able to find it. I hope you love it as much as I do.
A Non-traditional Blessing
May God bless you with discontent with easy answers, half-truths, superficial relationships, so that you will live from deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, abuse, and exploitation of people, so that you will work for justice, equality, and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you will reach out your hand to comfort them and to change their pain to joy.
May God bless you with the foolishness to think you can make a difference in this world, so that you will do the things which others tell you cannot be done.
If you have the courage to accept these blessings, then God will also bless you with:
happiness—because you will know that you have made life better for others
inner peace—because you will have worked to secure an outer peace for others
laughter—because your heart will be light
faithful friends—because they will recognize your worth as a person.
These blessings are yours—not for the asking, but for the giving—from One who wants to be your companion, our God, who lives and reigns, forever and ever. Amen.
Sister Ruth Fox, OSB
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