I relish those times when there are no responsibilities but to engage in this quiet dialogue that is my vocation. Then, I readpray, studypray, workpray, thinkpray, because there is nothing I more want to do.
So when old activist friends ask why I’m not out there on the street working to change the world, I answer that I am out on the street in the most serious way by being here with my books, and if you see no connection there, you have not understood my vocation. I do not love the suffering poor less by offering them what they need more.
Thomas C. Oden, “Last Wednesday’s Theology,” Christianity Today, 10 February 1992, page 9.
(HT: Ray Ortlund)
I Commend Joy! 