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Finding Our Calling -- The Meaning of Life
V. Our Contributors' Advice on Finding Our
Calling and Learning the Meaning of Life
Seek it and be patient. I started out just looking for
a career. I was sure that I knew what I wanted to do by
college -- to be a newspaper reporter. By the time I
was 27 or 28, I knew there must be something more. I
read my Bible and prayed a lot. I wrote out my prayers
in a notebook, asking, "What am I for, Lord?" I
expressed my frustrations and conflicting desires and
dreams, then I got involved with the founding Christian
school and forgot about my quest. I was too busy to
think about it. Several years later -- in my mid 30's -- I
came across that notebook and realized that God had
answered my prayers. He has used me to help grow a
Christian school against all odds and thus continues to
use me now in my 50's. My calling is to love and honor
God and to serve Him all of my days; to draw others to
Him, especially my family, but also the school faculty,
student body, families, friends, and others God brings
my way.
--
Marquita Moss, Austin, Texas
Finding our calling is very different from avocations.
Members of the church of Christ have shunned the idea
of our pulpit minister being "called to preach." In
contrast to this position, let me suggest that not only
preachers, but indeed everyone should seek to know
their calling. It is God who gives us talent. Even the
"stick-to-itiveness" necessary to earn a college
education should be viewed in humble thanksgiving.
With the constant reliance upon our Heavenly Father,
even through career changes, it will eventually lead us
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