tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976167372194160532.post8162277521413638527..comments2023-04-15T16:21:20.343+01:00Comments on LankyAnglican: Vocation and the work-life balanceLankyAnglicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06853314924637300039noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976167372194160532.post-19968594547609262052011-03-06T12:17:17.951+00:002011-03-06T12:17:17.951+00:00We are made in the image of a God who is One and T...We are made in the image of a God who is One and Three; we are trinitarian creatures.<br /><br />Somehow, I think, part of our vocation is about accepting this seemingly absurd contradiction (aka a Mystery) and living it out in all its joy and pain - easier said than done, but look at that cross on Calvary.<br /><br />Mary, Mother of God the Son, Spouse of God the Spirit, Daughter of God the Father, is a beautiful model of this ternary complexity, is she not? I find praying with her is, for me, a way of offering my contradictions (my work-life balance, certainly) and my fears about this to the God who loves.<br /><br />I'll never be able to 'balance' my life as a father, a husband, a son, a brother, an uncle, a nephew, a god-father, a trainee-teacher, but when in the silence of prayer, God lifts me up in my muddled messiness and says: it's OK, I love you; messy as you are, muddled as you are, sinner though you are, crazy as you are, inconsistent as you are, unbalanced as you will inevitably be, I love you.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07624487647356762841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1976167372194160532.post-48300617223078240742011-02-25T21:47:56.726+00:002011-02-25T21:47:56.726+00:00As another one with the same struggle for balance....As another one with the same struggle for balance. I like the "God doesn't call us to conflicting vocations" quote. And here's another, from my DDO this time, just before we left Bristol "To be a good priest, you need to be a good father and a good husband. You cannot be a good priest unless you are doing the others." For me a big part of this journey has been about bringing my life into unity to be one whole person and as a father and a husband and an Ordinand, I cannot be one without the others.<br />I'm not sure how much it helps practically though.moosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01044792628487251455noreply@blogger.com