People always want to define you by what you do.  I started saying, "I"m not too concerned with what I am going to do.  I am more interested in who I am becoming.  I want to be a lover of God and people."

     I was convinced that what we do is not nearly as important as who we are.  The question is not whether you will be a doctor or a lawyer but what kind of doctor or lawyer you will be.  What would a twenty-year-old Jesus have said if they asked him, "What are you going to do when you grow up?"  I don't know, maybe something like, "I'm going to turn the world upside-down.  I'm going to hang out with prostitutes and tax collectors until people kill me."  Or what would Peter have said?  "Well, I was going to be a fisherman, but then I met this dude, and he messed all that up."

    I remembered Mother Teresa saying, "Do not worry about your career.  Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus."

[Shane Claiborne]

you look beautiful & sure.  but your vision is far more beautiful & i'm drawn to it.  i wish i could have been there with you, as you lobbied for the voiceless.  i want to know you better.  (do you have facebook?)  i'm muddled as i beg for purpose & direction in my life, just having glimpses of the vocation i'm called to, but so confused as to the doing i must begin to reach for that...

love & prayers,

lizzy