Title: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the voice of vocation

Author: Parker J. Palmer

 

 

The book is an invitation to seek ones vocation in life given the self-related story of Parker Palmer’s path to his own. The book talks about the life of the author and his journey to find his own vocation. This was the first book that we read even before getting in into the MPC. For me was particularly helpful the idea of really allow yourself to find your vocation, that path that really respond to your own values and desires instead of looking for what others would like you to do or be. It is a call to be honest with yourself to embrace your life and the responsibility that comes with the gift. I liked the allegory of the seasons and how often one fails to realize that after winter there will come spring! Recently in my life I’ve found that this is so true. Talking with a friend about an ongoing situation during this past year, we saw a tree outside the café where we usually talk. The three at the beginning of the year looked almost dead and so were the feelings in the table during that afternoon. The weeks passed and the tree start blooming again! So I told my friend, look there is hope! And now the three is giving fruits. Such is our life! We have to embrace those moments when the touch rock bottom to start building. Those moments will be the foundations for the building that it is our life. But all this growing and building only will happen for real if we allow ourselves to find our own path and we let our own passion to be the guide to life a good life. According to Palmer, if we fail in that we will never let our life speak the vocation that it has. Although I didn’t love the book I find very interesting themes, particularly the one about following our own path instead of what others might think is good or profitable for us.

 

 

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