Will Vaus

A church board was interviewing a young man for the position of pastor. One old hard-working Irishman, who was on the board, looked at the young man sternly and asked, “Young man, is God calling you here? The young minister replied, “Well, I don’t know if God is calling me here. I am here trying to find the will of God and find out if you would like me for your next pastor.” The board member replied, “Young man, is God calling you here?” The young minister was somewhat at a loss for words and said again, “Well, I just stopped by to talk with the board and…” The board member interrupted again and said, “Young man, is God calling you here?” Finally, the young man screwed up enough courage to say, “Well, I guess God isn’t calling me here. I just stopped by to see whether we could get together.” The old board member leaned back in his seat and said, “That’s good. The last four ministers we had said that God had called them here, and we had nothing but trouble with all four of them!” That s...

After months of working my way through the Mere Christianity Journal that project is finally complete. I am now reading The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III . So as I continue reading this massive volume of correspondence over the next couple of months I will share here my favorite quotes. "Do you think one's vocation wh. looks so cryptic as a whole, is usually fairly clear from day to day and moment to moment? One usually has an idea what to do next . Need one know any more? It wd. be a pity if when He came He found me thinking about my vocation at a moment when I wd. have been better employed writing a letter, making a bed, entertaining a bore -- or something quite dull and obvious." Collected Letters, Volume III, p. 781. Lewis is so good, and helpful and practical at certain points, and this is one of those points. We are asked so many times when we are young: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" It is, perhaps, a helpful question at...