Margie\u00a0<\/a>was a writer when I married her. If I had known, I would have still married her, but still, I had no idea. Neither did she. I knew she was creative and intelligent, but the writing came later. It turns out to be one of her gifts, an essential part of her calling, but it was hidden or unnoticed back in the Sixties when we dated.<\/p>\nSome people seem to know from the beginning what they want to do in life. I\u2019ve met people from a remarkable array of vocations who tell that story. They seem to be rather decisive, aware of their gifts and interests and what work is most fulfilling to them, and they go for it. Not a bad way to go through life, I suppose, but not a standard for everyone, either. Still, in a society like ours where extroversion is the cultural ideal the prejudice that everyone should be like this seeps into the church as well. It\u2019s worth resisting.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know about you, but I so identify with this. I still feel as if I\u2019m just beginning to really understand my calling \u2013 or really, my callings, as a teacher and a writer and an editor and a thinker and a friend and a wife. These are tricky things, and it\u2019s good to know that I don\u2019t have to figure it all out right now, nor do I really need to figure it all out a decade or three decades from now.<\/p>\n
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