Listening to Life

Five years ago at Christmas, my son Graham gave me a book by Parker J. Palmer called Let your Life Speak. He didn’t know anything about it, found it on a table in the spiritual books section of Barnes & Noble, thought I might like it. It has, over these past five years, become one of the touchstones of my life, key words about who we are, who we were meant to be, and how we are to listen for the voice of vocation. If I could, I’d buy you all a copy. Instead, I’ll share the opening page or two and trust it will begin to open doors for you as it did for me.

He begins with a poem by William Stafford, Ask Me:

Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my…