Today for our Monday curriculum at the Training Center here at Athletes in Action’s home office we read a chapter from Os Guinness’ book, “The Call.†I have yet to read the whole of this book, but the chapter, entitled “A Focused Life,†we read for our workshop on “Time Management and Time Famine†blew me away and has me wanting to buy the whole book (which I don’t need to buy another book at the time, but the temptation is there). The whole chapter floored me, but what really struck a cord with me were some quotes from Dorothy L. Sayers.
Here they are for you!
In response to her putting down her writing and taking up a “Christian vocation†she had this to say, “How dare they talk about Christian vocation, when at the same time they try to take me away from my vocation, which is to be a craftsman with words, to waste my time doing something for which I have no vacation and no talent, merely because I have a name.â€
Guinness also added this quote from her to piggyback the previous, “When I am doing this kind of thing [this thing being an apologist – that is one who offers a defense of Christianity] I am visited by a powerful sensation that it is not my proper job, and that I am doing something perilously like violating my own integrity.â€
I guess these two quotes from Sayers hit home with me because I’m in a season of life that I feel that I haven’t been called to, but yet I’m here. Hearing Sayers thinking out loud, to a degree, helped me realize that I am not losing my mind. But it has increased the amount of questions in my mind, more than it has given me answers. Praise God for questions, because he can move in the midst of questions in some powerful ways! Well, I need to get my prayer letter out this afternoon, so I need to bounce.