{"id":5311,"date":"2015-02-23T20:50:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2015-02-26T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:01:26","slug":"meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Call: How Do I See Myself? \u2014 Cheryl<\/h6>\n

Sometimes I think back over my early years and laugh. There is no way I could have envisioned my life the way it is now.<\/p>\n

In high school, I was led to believe that meaning in life was tied up with careers and what other people thought of you.<\/p>\n

In college, the notion took on more depth, but even then I imagined a life in which a career (as a college professor, perhaps, or an editor at some big magazine or publishing house) played a major role. Sure, I might get married and have kids, but I saw no reason why I couldn’t also have a fulfilling work life.<\/p>\n

My first real job after college was in an office setting with people who hadn’t seemed to find any significant meaning in life beyond paying the bills and having a fun weekend.<\/p>\n

It took marriage to a deep thinker and a job at The Denver Catholic Register<\/em>, where the people in my building signed up for half-hour shifts in front of the Eucharist every Friday, to get my mind pointed firmly in the right direction. Even then, though, I thought I could do it all. It wasn’t until about a month before my first child was born that I realized my calling, above all else, was to motherhood.<\/p>\n

My children give shape to my life, but God gives my life meaning. That realization sometimes gets lost in the responsibilities of life or in trying to make something fit a preconceived notion, but I always come back to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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