Mission Vision Vocare Ep07

Moment for Mission

Podcast Episode 7 Summary

In M4M episode 7, my topic is “Mission--Vision--Vocare”.

If you give 10 minutes of you time to listen to episode 7, you will begin to see how an informed understanding of “vocation” can inspire us in our Mission and focus our vision to press on.

Quotable and Notable

“A vocation is something that goes deeper than economy; it embraces the whole of our being. Doing something we love, something we feel we were made to do, ‘called’ to do, something that give us and others life, something that draws us together as community rather than pushing us apart with violence enacted from our unabashed demand for freedom of choice— these ideas begins to get at the essence of ‘vocare’.”

Dr. Fred Foy Strang, M4M Episode 7

Steve Jobs – Founder of Apple Computer spoke these words to students at Stanford University, in 2005: “You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

The Latin word 'vocare' or vocation is significant as we consider our individual and corporate Mission-- this word means responding to a 'calling' or 'direction /directive' to invest in something significant. When I can put aside my 'career' aspirations which essentially get nowhere, and focus on listening to a 'call' from a Higher Power to some task, quest, or meaningful use of my gifts and talents for the betterment of others and this world then I am much more content. I think Frederich Buechner said it well "The place where your deepest passion and the world's deepest need meet is the place you will find your calling fro God and the most fulfillment in life" (paraphrase).

Recommended Resources

In Episode 7—

Text of Steve Job’s speech, Stanford University (2005)

https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/

Dolly Parton, “9 to 5”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4

Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN

https://www.amazon.com/Walden-Henry-David-Thoreau/dp/1619493918

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