Let Your Life Speak

Like Parker as a young child, my younger self thought the concept of a vocation or “calling” only pertained to those called to the religious life.  I never realized that lay people had vocations as well.  Now, as a young adult, I realize that everyone always had these vocations that were embedded into our own “sacred souls.”  However, through time and age, one’s vocations are revealed to him or her through her talents, other people, and her prayers.  I agree with Parker’s assertion that our image should not conform to something that it “ought to be.”  My AP Government class and I have discussed the word “ought.”  Who determines how something should be governed?    

I believe that by living one’s vocation, one automatically has success.  However, success is not defined by the amount of materialistic items one possesses but rather the positive characteristics one shares.  Unfortunately, one may not always encounter good fortunes but rather hardships.  Parker’s view states that hardships are “integral to the journey itself” because through these incidents one sees her “weaknesses as well as [her] strengths.”