"By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others."
- Parker J. Palmer 'Let Your Life Speak'
When I read these words, they didn't lift me from the despondence I have been feeling in my search for calling. His phrase "good stewardship" took my mind to the parable of talents where the servant who keeps his talent buried, unused, and away from the world is rebuked and thrown out. After a second reading of the story I realized it wasn't the undiscovered dormancy of his one talent that was the sin meriting the master's displeasure - it was his fear and unbelief which tied him down. "And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground..." This seems to say that it wasn't his failure to immediately find the perfect place to invest his talent, it was that he was not actively seeking one. I am afraid, too.
But there is time.
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