True Calling My Heart's True

True Calling My Heart's True Calling The question of what one wants to be when they grow up has always seemed kind of silly to me. Apparently the first time I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, at the age of three, I replied, "A grownup." Though this early witticism (meant far more innocently and seriously than it might now appear) might seem somewhat simplistic, it is really the way in which I have always approached this problem.

Naturally, when I grew up, I would be what it was I wanted to be. Things got more complicated as I got older and began making choices that truly impacted the possibilities and opportunities I would face in my life, of course, but my general feelings towards this question haven't really changed. Despite the pressure that university attendance and these years of one's life is supposed to create, I really still don't feel as though I'm in a great rush to make a decision.

As long as I apply myself wholeheartedly and with the best of my abilities to the tasks and opportunities I come across, I guess I've always figured that the answers I need would find me. So far, they have, and I put a lot of trust in God and in my faith because of this. Life isn't always easy, and there are definitely times that I've struggled, but even during these struggles I had a certain sense that things really would work out in the end.

Ultimately, they kind of have to -- things are, and that is the way that they've worked out, I guess you might say. Being able to accept God's plan for me and for the world has given me a certain calmness and a certain strength, I believe, and more than anything these are probably my greatest strengths and my greatest assets to share with the rest of the world and its people.

Because I firmly believe that God has given me this strong sense of faith and the calmness and seemingly relaxed attitude that comes with it, it makes perfect sense that God would want this to lead to my vocation and profession as well.

There have been many times that my sense of calm and -- not exactly optimism, but a sense that things really work out all the time: faith, I suppose -- have enabled me to help other individuals that were struggling or suffering and did not have the same sense of calm or the same feeling of guidance and certainty.

I look around me and see many people that are very stressed out about their lives, the direction in which they are headed, the choices they have to make and the ones they have already made, and a host of other factors involved with their frantice search for their own way. The irony is that they that are making it harder for their own way to find them by so much thrashing about. I believe that my vocation has something to do with.