How do the needs of the world guide our choices about what to do with our lives?

What does it mean to find and follow our personal calling? How do we distinguish between the “still, small voice” of our authentic vocation and all of the other competing counterfeit voices in ourselves and in our culture? Specifically, how do we balance the inward listening to our hearts and the need to listen with our hearts to the realities and needs of our world?

Drawing widely on the wisdom of saints, sages, and the traditions of spiritual direction, Neafsey describes a path to living in the place, as Frederick Buechner has put it, “where our deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

An excellent book: a perceptive combination of spiritual wisdom, psychological insight, and biblical passion.—Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and The Heart of Christianity

Offers a pathway to our authentic homeplace within the ecology of life.—Sharon Daloz, author of Big Questions, Worthy Dreams.