Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
Frederick BuechnerI say, โYou may be right, but donโt knock it until youโre tried it. Donโt say, โI think itโs worthless; therefore Iโm not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'โ Maybe thatโs an even worse mistake than praying might be.
Frederick BuechnerHere and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.
Frederick BuechnerBut it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?
Frederick Buechner