“I am kind, except when I am not,” writes SSJE Br. Curtis Almquist in a February 10, 2019 sermon. He suggests that each one of us has a quality that we learned, most likely from someone from early childhood, which over the years defines who we are. Br. Curtis learned kindness from his paternal grandmother.
I learned to be hopeful from my mother. “I am hopeful, except when I am not.”
Br. Curtis names this particular way of being as our vocation, our calling from God. When I first listened to his sermon, “Vocation: The Call is Lifelong”, and then read it, I wondered what mine might be. And so, in longing and praying, the answer came. Hope has become the guiding light in my daily life because it is a God call. When I am stuck in negativity, confusion, anger, selfishness…, whenever I am not being hopeful, I stop and recall my vocation. The Holy Spirit leads me to turn back, and say, “I am hopeful.”
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I learned to be hopeful from my mother. “I am hopeful, except when I am not.”
Br. Curtis names this particular way of being as our vocation, our calling from God. When I first listened to his sermon, “Vocation: The Call is Lifelong”, and then read it, I wondered what mine might be. And so, in longing and praying, the answer came. Hope has become the guiding light in my daily life because it is a God call. When I am stuck in negativity, confusion, anger, selfishness…, whenever I am not being hopeful, I stop and recall my vocation. The Holy Spirit leads me to turn back, and say, “I am hopeful.”
Email if you like an electronic copy of Hope Thoughts.
<[email protected]>
www.ssje.org/2019/02/10/vocation-the-call-is-lifelong-br-curtis-almquist/
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