Vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

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"In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment."

- Frederick Buechner

Awareness

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peached and joy finally for you too."

- Frederick Buechner

Compassion

"The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it."

- Frederick Buechner

Transformation

""Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.""

- Frederick Buechner

Courage

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid."

- Frederick Buechner

Courage

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"You are the hope of Israel, ‘children of the promised day’!"

- President Russell M. Nelson

Aspirations

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

Aspirations

"You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits."

- Michael Phelps

Aspirations

"Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard."

- Serena Williams

Aspirations