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Desire, Delay, and Disappointment in our Vocation – An Interview with Anjuli Paschall

Have you ever experienced the difficulty of explaining your work to others or felt unknown in your vocation within your local church? Are you often the one who sees without being truly seen? These are common experiences for spiritual directors.

Staying open to our desires and longings while we wait for them to bear fruit can be an arduous journey fraught with strong emotion. The process is often difficult, messier and slower that we would like, especially when disappointment sets in or the journey does not bring about the desired result.

As spiritual directors, we are trained in understanding how emotions are a pathway to experiencing the fullness of God’s love. We give witness and “withness” to every human emotion— the good, the hard, and the complicated—inviting others on this freeing journey where these feelings turn into intimate conversations with God.

In this offering, we invite you to attend to your own emotions surrounding your vocational desires in order to attend to and encounter what is there and waits for God’s fullness.

Anjuli Paschall, author, spiritual director, and founder of Hope House, shares her vocational journey and how desire, delays, and disappointments become important companions. We explore her latest book: Feel: A Collection of Liturgies Offering Hope for Every Complicated Emotion.

• How to identify and stay present with your feelings
• Recognizing temptations and how to powerfully manage them
• Waking up to the gentle presence of God
• Allowing feeling to become a path of healing, wholeness, and abiding connection with God.

Come find a place to be accompanied by others who also experience the discomfort of waiting on God to fulfill vocational dreams and desires.