Vocare Guided Meditation
The Nourishing Vocation Project
Near and Now:
Vocare Spiritual Practice
Openness: Embracing Holy Indifference
Vocare
Vocare is an ongoing spiritual practice designed to help you discern and embrace your multiple vocations so that you can more intentionally live life on purpose. Vocare invites regular reflection upon values, openness, call, attentiveness, regret, and the experience of God’s presence.
Focus
You are invited to focus on your own experiences of openness. Openness summons us to dwell in “holy indifference,” focusing our hearts and minds not on outcomes or results, but rather concentrating on being sustained in every present moment by God who works all things for good. Use the time between the guided questions for your own reflection and meditation. Bring to mind an experience of openness that has reached a conclusion, or is it an experience of openness that is still unfolding? How has this particular experience of openness shaped your life and its horizons?
Guided Reflection
Opening Prayer
Open the eyes of my heart, O God, that I might see the hope to which you have called me. In the name of +Jesus, Amen.
- What life values are present for you in this experience of openness? Are they your most important values?
- To what does this experience invite or compel you to be open? How easy is it for you to be open to this?
- What voices are calling to you through this invitation to openness? Are these voices that you want to listen to? Why or why not?
- As you consider this experience of openness, what holds your attention? Is this where you want your attention to be?
- What regrets does this invitation to openness bring to mind for you? What do you do with these regrets?
- Where and how in this invitation to openness do you experience God’s presence?
Closing Prayer
Give me ears to hear and eyes to see, O God, your unfolding vision for me and for your world.
Open me to where you are calling me, that I might go out in trust and hope.
Accompany me on my seeking journey,
And open my heart to understand where you would have me go.
In the name of +Jesus, Amen