Rochester college student portal ajones4 paswrd Diamond17 srtoll down to the chritian of faith go down to week 4 and look at the Lecture Material In 250 words, reflect on this week’s course content, as it relates to your ongoing discernment of vocation. What might you be called to do in light of all this? The following (more specific) questions might help:
Cahalan says that we are called as who we are. That is, we are called through the “”givens”” (the things we cannot change, at least not easily) about ourselves, such as family, race, ethnicity, time in history, country of origin, biological sex, socioeconomic status, and so on. Thinking about those sorts of “”givens”” or “”particular contexts”” in your life:
How have they shaped your sense of calling?
How have they affected how you see the world, and therefore how you think about your identity (your “”being””) and your activity (your “”doing””)?
Consider each of the following sources of discernment related to calling:
Passions – What gives you great joy? What do you love?
Gifts – What are your strengths, skills, or gifts? What are you good at?
World’s Needs – Who needs your gifts and passions? What evil in the world do you feel drawn to address?
Community – Who has been an agent of God’s calling for you? What have your communities affirmed or challenged you to do?
How does Jesus show me what a human is meant to be like?
What characteristics or adjectives describe Jesus? What would it look like for my career or relationships to be described by those same adjectives?
Jesus chooses the path of descent, humility. What would it look like in your career or relationships to do this?
In Jesus, death is dead, captivity is a captive, and evil does not have the last word. What would it look like for you to live as if God’s way of life is truer than evil’s distortions?”Vocation Journals (20%) – Due weekly, Friday
Each week, after watching the video lecture(s), write a 250-word reflection on the effect
that week’s content has on your ongoing discernment of vocation (calling). The goal is to consider
how the content might shape your sense of identity (who you are) or activity (what you do). Think
of the journal as asking the question: “So what?” Or, “If I were to live as if these ideas were true,
what would the implications be?”
Include no more than one sentence (25 words) of summary. Do not simply say, “This
week, I learned that God created all people in God’s image.” I know what the topic of the week
was, and don’t need you to summarize it back to me.
Be personal and specific. Do not simply say, “This week, I learned that God created all
people in God’s image, so we should all be kind to each other.” This is something that anyone
could say (it is not personal) and it does not tell me how you are called to participate in this reality
(it is not specific).
Tell me how this would inform your sense of vocation. For instance: “This week, I
learned that God created all people in God’s image. Because all humans are created in God’s
image, I believe that every student I serve as a teacher has inherent value and worth and I will
treat them accordingly. For example, different students have different learning styles, so I will try
not to value one way of learning over another, either in my lesson planning or in my feelings
about my students.”)
