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

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."

In a world of systemic distraction, exhausting consumerism, and insideous injustice, both younger and older adults will find in John Neafsey's thoughtful, often moving, and inspiring excavation of vocation, social conscience, and the prophetic tradition a compelling tug to the Center--an awakening to the cry of those who bear most of the social cost and to the sacred within, among, and beyond us. This book offers a pathway to our authentic homeplace within the ecology of Life.--Sharon Daloz Parks, author, Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith

A gentle, winsome reflection on the call of God, holding a double focus of mystical intimacy and bold social justice. . . . This book will serve well those who hope for and engage an alternative way in the world.--Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary