Reading your emails and comments on the blog and Facebook, I understand that the posts on vocation or mission require some deepening, even if these high-tech methods don’t allow us to treat the issue in an exhaustive way. For this reason I recommend my next book, due out in the Spring and published by the Paulines, entitled, “FREE TO LOVE.” In this book I have gathered passages from some of my other books on this theme. I begin with this post and maybe then some others on the “shadow” of our personality.

First of all, I must say that if you fulfill your vocation you feel the world as friend, as if powerful energy fields were helping you. Deep down, to fulfill your vocation means participating in the permanent work of the creation of the universe. You enter into a plan of universal intelligence and wisdom, the plan of Providence. Whenever you develop your talents, God is with you. Talents, gifts, are given by God to each of us. For this God has made us unique and unrepeatable. Each of us is called to live with our own originality and in freedom, as opposed to other animals and plants that obey instinct. And besides, when a person is called to a vocation, only that person can fulfill it. This is why knowing and following your vocation is fundamentally important. The knowledge of your vocation does not come with a crash like some characters in the Bible. In reality, our vocation awaits us, no one excluded, maybe in the silence of a book, in a meeting, in the words of a friend, but also an experience of sickness or suffering, in a dismissal from work, or an accident. The revealing of a vocation can come from wherever. I am ever more convinced that it’s our vocation that chooses us. We then are free to accept and follow it, or not. Free to live, free to die. Certainly factual and concrete things reveal our vocation to us, but also thoughts, states of mind, or reflections that connect various experiences–all of these make your vocation appear clearly, as if a mysterious design has lead you to it. (exclusive excerpt from “FREE TO LOVE” (LIBERI D’AMARE ed. Paoline) only on valerioalbisetti.it