00588 – Finding Our Vocation

Engineering involves more than telling materials what they must do. If the engineer does not honor the nature of the steel of the wood or the stone, his failure will go well beyond aesthetics: the bridge or the building will collapse and put human life in peril. The...

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00307 – Job vs. Vocation

What are you hoping to accomplish with your life? When you get where you’re going, where will you be? If you spend forty years being a lawyer, engineer, salesperson, nurse, what will you have accomplished? If you’ve had only a job all those years, you may not have...

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00217 – Being True to Our Gifts

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us. When we talk about being true to ourselves—being the persons we are intended to be—we are talking about...

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