Michelle’s Reviews > The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery > Status Update

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

“Our unique calling will be based on our gifts and abilities, will grow out of our deepest desires, and will always involve some response to the needs of the world.”

Okay, I actually do like the comparison of God looking for Adam and Eve in the Garden as a parable for our own self-reclamation. “Where are you? Why are you hiding?”

So… differentiation? And ugh, classical millennial who hates the phrase “Respect is earned.”

Okay, see, this is what I don’t understand! Having feelings of irritation and annoyance are signs of a false self? So… a “true” self never feels annoyed or irritated, is that what we are to understand? I am sick of the idea of “feelings” being put into groups of good and evil feelings. I’m allowed to be annoyed, and I’m allowed to choose how I respond to that feeling. Lord help us.

And now I’m “prickly.” Well, this false self does not appreciate the sort of God you know. He sounds awful.

NO, no, no, no, no. “God wants us to be aware of our helplessness so we can know that we need Divine help.” I was hoping that quote from before was just a stand-alone.

Hard eye-roll.

Are attachments really so evil? What is the difference between attachments and love? Because I’m assuming grief comes once they are gone regardless of how they’re frame-worked.