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Holy Vocation: Encountering the Other in Front of You

by Rhett Smith on May 12, 2010

I recently just finished a really great book by Ronald Rolheiser, The Restless Heart: Finding Our Spiritual Home in Times of Loneliness. In one section of the book Rolheiser writes about a conversation he had with a nun. In that conversation the nun said the following: “my vocation is, at each moment, to make the [...]

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Suburban Spirituality: Contemplating Through a Move

by Rhett Smith on May 13, 2009

[image by jdnx] Transitions I decided I wanted to write something a little more personal over the next few weeks…something that has been on my heart, raised questions, and has me awake at night…sometimes. For those of you who don’t know, my wife, baby daughter and I have been living in Dallas since August of [...]

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The Funnel: Making Decisions Among All The Choices

by Rhett Smith on April 16, 2009

So how do you make decisions when there are so many choices out there? This is the question I have been wondering a lot about. When you are presented with various opportunities, how do you determine if your choice is the right one? I’ve been thinking about this primarily in a vocational context because I [...]

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Identity & Relationality

by Rhett Smith on March 23, 2009

“The Quaker teacher Douglas Steere was fond of saying that the ancient human question ‘Who am I?’ leads inevitably to the equally important question, ‘Whose am I?’–for there is no selfhood outside of relationship. We must ask the question of selfhood and answer it as honestly as we can, no matter where it takes us. [...]

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Identity in Weakness

by Rhett Smith on March 19, 2009

This post is an ongoing reflection on the book Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer. “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s [...]

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Reclaimining Our “Birthright Gifts”

by Rhett Smith on March 11, 2009

“We arrive in this world with birthright gifts–then we spend the first half of our lives abandoning them or letting other disabuse us of them. As young people, we are surrounded by expectations that may have little to do with who we really are, expectations held by people who are not trying to discern our [...]

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In Violation of our True Self

by Rhett Smith on March 9, 2009

I have been returning time and time again to one of my favorite books on the topic of identity and vocation, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer. I first read the book in 2002 when I was finishing up my M. Div. at Fuller Theological Seminary at it [...]

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Tony Steward: What Are You Passionate About?

by Rhett Smith on February 27, 2009

What Are You Passionate About? I like all the creative things that different bloggers are doing online to help us connect and get to know others in the online community. I love Rick Smith’s “double popped” interviews and John Saddington’s chats or Friday 5′s, as well as the other creative things bloggers are doing. One [...]

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Berdyaev on Vocation and Creativeness

by Rhett Smith on January 31, 2008

The Gospel constantly speaks of the fruit which the seed must bring forth if it falls on good soil and of talents given to man which must be returned with profit. Under cover of parable Christ refers in these words to man’s creative activity, to his creative vocation. Burying one’s talents in the ground, i.e. [...]

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