IVP Formatio

even more basic place in which God’s will for me has been communicated.

My temperament, my personality, my abilities, and my interests and passions all say something about who I was called to be, not simply who I am.

what God had already revealed about who I am.

If I really believe that I was created by God and invited to find my place in his kingdom, I have to take seriously

in finding God we find our truest and deepest self.

through the help of others who know us well,

I cannot, for example, imagine God giving me my interest in ideas and not making this an important part of the place I am called to fill in the kingdom

Thoughts have always been my inner companions.

I seek dialogue as a way to explore and organize these imperfectly formed parts of my inner architecture.

And I gravitate toward writing as an extension of this.