Hello, friends! As I've got a very busy week ahead of me, and don't need the distraction of blogging, I'm going to go ahead and post my usual Wednesday spiel today. It's a poem actually. Discovered at the tail end of a course I've been taking and am finishing up this very week. There isn't much
commentary I can make on such eloquently expressed truth, except to say
that I earnestly hope that this beautiful mission statement will be true of me and of you...
ENTREPRENEURS OF LIFE*
[A little long, but absolutely worth a read through...]
As Entrepreneurs of Life, we respond to the call of our
great Creator
By seeing all life as an enterprise transformed by his
call to “Follow Me.”
We therefore count the cost, consider the risks,
And set out on each day as a venture to multiply our
gifts and opportunities
In order to bring glory to God and add value to this
world.
In so living, we find the fullest meaning of our lives in
answering the call,
We seek our identity solely in our naming by the Caller,
We pursue excellence defined as “My utmost for His
highest,”
We count our deepest companionship among our fellow-followers
of the Way,
We look for final approval only from one audience – the
Audience of One,
We break down every false barrier between the sacred and
the secular, weaving all life into a seamless web of faith and love in action,
And we work for no other accomplishment or legacy than
the Caller’s own “Well done,”
The menial and humdrum we elevate because of the One for
whom it’s ultimately done,
The dangerous and sacrificial we bear as the privilege of
high calling,
The siren sounds of ease, success and popularity we shun
for a trust-worthier voice,
And the temptations of conceit coming from being so
chosen we answer with a gratitude humbled by grace because we have been chosen
at all.
Thus we are fully engaged in the world on realistic
terms, but empowered by vision and energies from a world that is unseen but
even more real and realistic.
In all things, and in all the vicissitudes and seasons of
life,
We know that, primarily, we are called not to somewhere
or something but to Someone,
That there is no true calling without the Caller,
That calling is not only being who we are but becoming
what we are to be,
That no self-made goal can ever rival the Ultimate Why of
the mystery of the Creator’s purpose for each of us as His creatures,
That we will never rise higher than when we follow the
call not knowing where the path may lead – so long as the Caller is God,
And that while we may lose our jobs and our health, or
retire from a career, we will never retire from our calling – until that Final
Call, which is death, leads each of us to the climax and consummation of all
calling.
For on that day, for the first time, we will not need to listen
to only a word; we will see the Caller face to face and find ourselves in our
Father’s home forever.
In the meantime that is our journey until our life’s last
day, the passion of our lives is to go further, higher, deeper, always closer
to the One who called us once and calls us still – to Himself, and to all the
joys that knowing Him can mean.
~ Os Guinness, Entrepreneurs of Life
