If a work does not gladden me,
I need to consider laying it down.
When I devote myself to something
that does not flow from my identity,
that is not integral to my nature,
I am most likely deepening the world's hunger
rather than helping to alleviate it.

~ Parker J. Palmer

Most servants don't consider themselves leaders.
They are so focused on meeting the needs at hand that they never look back to see if they are being followed.
They are...
Sergiovanni's ideal schoolhouse is one many ... educators know well.
They have been taught there.
They continue to learn there.
That is where they serve, and that is where they lead.

Sims, C. (2002). Sergiovanni, Synodical Schools, and Servant Leadership. Lutheran Education, 138(2), 95-99.

Vocation is

"the place where your deep gladness

meets the world's deep need."

~ Frederick Buechner

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

~ Ranier Maria Rilke

What a long time it can take to become the person one has always been.

~ Parker J. Palmer