Marilyn was a speaker to Brian Mahan’s class. As a result of an epiphany of recruitment in her life she had served in Sri Llanka with the Peace Brigades but was now back teaching and writing. Mahan writes,
An epiphany of recruitment is not an end in itself, it is an invitation to a different kind of life. It’s no use trying to extend the moment, or to recreate it. Nor need we flatten it out into some banal and sanitized image of moral or spiritual self-seeking. But neither can we expect to respond fully, immediately, and consistently to such a moment of recruitment. That was Marilyn’s gift to us. She remembered her call, and she would not give up on it. She would talk about it, write about it, do whatever she could about it and await further instructions (Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose, 135).
How might you talk about your calling today? Write about it? What else could you do about it today as you await further instructions?
We will conclude our three-week series on vocation, ambition, and purpose this Sunday in worship at The Table. A new study ofBlueprint for Discipleship begins this coming Tuesday evening from 6:00 – 7:30 pm.
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