Chosen and called

Tuesday, 4th April
It's refreshing to end a long day with the wise words of those who stand convicted in their vocation. I have never heard a talk about 'vocations' that truly hit home and got us wondering, 'Is this the life God has planned for us?'. Usually this question poses deep worry and contemplation whether you're walking the walk God has planned for your life, or it may be the biggest bump on the side that you are nowhere near where you are meant to be. But how do we really know we are what we are meant to be in this life?

Sister Julie, from the Sisters of the Marian apostolic movement at Mt Schoenstatt gave justice to the importance of finding your vocation. A coroporate women who had an 8 year involvement in one of the largest law firms in Sydney, has taken a life-turn, a turn she shared as her 'sense of peace, joy and freedom' she could not find elsewhere. She also shared with us the secret to happiness, that is 'To find our vocation and live it' in single life, married life or religious life. It is easy to mention a tool for happiness, but the real question resides: 'Do I trust Him?'.

While sitting in a room full of young people alike, who share the same path of a proposed WYD pilgrimage, I was hearing her words as if Christ himself was speaking only to me. It wasn't a wake up call, but more of a deep affirmation that I have chosen the right degree and wake up to a career I feel joy (most days anyways, it's also part of reality) and have chosen a partner who relives the meaning of freedom with me every single day. Being a teacher brings out the challenges that make and break me on a daily basis, that only teaching could ever teach me. Yes, I had other goals to maybe become a website designer, or magazine illustrator back in the day, but my ultimate choice of being a teacher overrides my talents and interests, but rather puts them both in a bag called teaching itself.

On the drive home as we were talking about the talk, there were moments of silence broken down by smiles and giggles because somewhere in the deepest crevices of our hearts, we both knew that being engaged and being excited for a married life together was 'our peace'. When As a wise friend once shared to me, 'You know you're meant to be together when your heart beats for the same thing' and it does just that. What is God's affirmation? When you find that one person who loves you deeper than you can love yourself, then you've won it all. :)