Vocatus Dei - Called of God

In the midst of the blogging I've been doing around the issue of vocation, I came across a wonderful piece of counsel in Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ. It speaks of the great honor and joy, as well as the freedom, to be found in serving God:

"It is a great honor, a great glory to serve You and to despise all things for Your sake. They who give themselves gladly to Your most holy service will possess great grace. They who cast aside all carnal delights for Your love will find the most sweet consolation of the Holy Ghost They who enter upon the narrow way for Your name and cast aside all worldly care will attain great freedom of mind" (III.10).

There is really so much in Kempis about the calling of the Christian life that it makes me wonder if all these thoughts and conversations I've been having recently are somehow arising from my meditations on the Imitation of Christ.

If you'd like to read the other recent posts on Christian vocation, you can find them here and here. The