Three Nurses and a Teacher by Tiara Jones https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g en-us 2018-09-17 21:09:07 UTC 2026-02-26 04:14:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecookie.png Listen to Your Life? The Concern of Vocation morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/282612896 2018-09-17 21:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/282612896 Meaningful Lives: Are Some More So Than Others? morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/282612954 2018-09-17 21:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/282612954 Work and Identity morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/282615292 2018-09-17 21:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/282615292 Do My Natural Talents Impose Special Obligations on the Kind of Life I Lead? tiara_jones1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288369664 2018-10-02 20:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288369664 To Whom Should I Listen? tiara_jones1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288369834 2018-10-02 20:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288369834 Enneagram melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434631 Def.: a nine-sided figure used in a particular system of analysis to represent the spectrum of possible personality types (dictionary.com)]]> 2018-10-03 02:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434631 Myers Briggs melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434700 "The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people's lives."


(https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/home.htm?bhcp=1)]]> 2018-10-03 02:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434700 C.S. Lewis "Learning in War Times melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434737 "We are members of one body. but differentiated members, each with his own vocation" (125). 
-We're all created in God's image, but every life is a little different. We need all different types to  make up the body, but the body isn't at it's fullest potential unless all the parts are doing their work. This concept ties into Schweitzer below. However, the body cannot live without some parts, such as the heart, so they do have a greater importance. 

*As discussed in class, Lewis believes that everyone has a calling that makes us meaningful. He believes in "finding your purpose" in life and being where God sends you. I think this is something all of us have at least started to do since we came to college. A huge part of life is figuring out who you are and who you want to become, and being at a Christian college, we also are able to learn about who we are to Christ. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434737 Aristotle "Nicomachean Ethics" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434799 Aristotle holds a belief similar to Bateson stating that "we must be self-lovers" (130). Yet he also recognizes along with Schweitzer that full service is necessary for a meaningful life, following the previous quote with "but in the way the many are, we ought not to be" (130). To live a life with the fullest extent of meaning, we must love ourselves, but also give ourselves to others in an act of love, which is what mattered most to Therese. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434799 Homer "The Iliad" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434839 The Iliad is a story that we can relate too. We can  understand the pressure of the decision Achilles faces regarding what will be the most meaningful choice. It's hard to know, but the previous writings show us that meaning lies in our actions, allowing us to be free to make the choice we feel we can give our all to. 

*Homer's idea of meaning varies depending on what you call meaningful. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434839 Dorothy Days "Therese" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434889 Therese of Lisieux was a woman who followed the words of Schweitzer. She found value in every activity and circumstance, including in sickness and trials. 
Instead of questioning if certain lives had more meaning than others, she believed, and died saying that "love alone matters" (162).

*All lives are meaningful, and our mission is to love God. In Days essay, "meaning" means leading people to God. In class, we also discussed how our 'eternal life' doesn't actually begin after our death, but it has already begun. The way we live here on Earth is determining out eternal life: whether we see Heaven or Hell, for one example. 
]]> 2018-10-03 02:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434889 Albert Schweitzer "I Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434978
"Only a person who finds value in any kind of activity and who gives of himself with a full sense of service has the right to choose an exceptional task instead of choosing a common path" (34).
-You should give all you've got at  your job to achieve a life full of meaning. Not giving it your all doesn't mean your life doesn't have meaning, but that it's just ordinary. An exceptional life is characterized by service.

*In our class discussion, we discussed how Schweitzer believes in giving genuinely and completely for the right reasons. As Christians, we are called to serve others. By serving others, we are able to glorify God and spread the gospel. This is one way to give our lives meaning, as Schweitzer says.  ]]> 2018-10-03 02:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288434978 Mary Catherine Bateson "Composing a Life Story" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435011 "If we become skilled in telling stories to ourselves about ourselves, we will be more likely to lead actual lives that matter" (460).
-Each choice we make can be represented by a stroke of paint, or by a note in a song. Our choices that we make as we grow older can turn our lives into something beautiful and artistic.
-Living lives that matter starts within ourselves. We must believe it first. What matters is that we feel our lives have importance. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435011 Dorothy L. Sayers "Why Work?" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435118 "To regard work as a calling is to suggest that we live to work, that our work is of central significance for our person" (237). 

- Work does play a huge role in our identity. What we do often becomes tacked on to who we are. "She's a nurse, she's a teacher." Sayers believes work should be for God, a point that Heschel also makes. Our identity should come from God, not the world. If our work is for God, then it makes sense that our identity is shaped by our work. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435118 H.G. Wells "The Door in the Wall" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435188 "Part of leading a life that matters involves attaining clarity about what finally matters to us, not simply about what we value and cherish but also about what we regard as the sources of ourselves" (201). 

-To lead a life that matters, we need to know what we hold near and dear to us, but knowing what makes up our identity, what makes us, us is just as important. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435188 Abraham Joshua Heschel "The Sabbath" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435217 "Labor is not only the destiny of man; it is endowed with divine dignity" (220).
- We were made by God to work. It's absolutely part of our identity. We shouldn't look at work as just our destiny, as that word has strayed from real meaning. We should look as it as something that God has endowed us with, a task with high importance to our maker.

Yet, work does not contain our whole identity. We have a great need for the Sabbath.
"What would be a world with Sabbath? It would be a world that knew only itself or God distorted as a thing or the abyss separating Him from the world; a world without the vision of a window in eternity that opens into time" (218). 
-The Sabbath is a day when we get to look beyond work, beyond ourselves, and beyond this world. We get to know the One who made us and we get to look at things from an eternal perspective, which shows us what's really important to us. This, a step stated also in H.G. Wells piece, is crucial in finding our full identity. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435217 Gilbert Meilander "Friendship and Vocation" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435269 "That Sabbath rest, as it even now recurs in the weekly cycle of Christian life, is already testimony to the fact that work offers no final fulfillment for human existence" (240).
Meilander piggybacks on what Heschel has to say. We need the Sabbath to discover our whole identity. It can't be found in work alone. 


]]> 2018-10-03 02:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435269 Annie Dillard "Living Like Weasels" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435351 "The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. This is yielding, not fighting" (301). 
-Finding your calling shouldn't be a fight. Go after your interests, plug into it's heartbeat and let it take over. 

*This was an interesting discussion in class as many people offered insight on this piece. Dillard uses nature to explain her ideas to her readers. We discussed how the weasel in the story was an opportunist who made a decision on instinct. This is a lesson we can use in life. Dillard is saying that when we find a calling or when we are presented an opportunity, we should go after it. We shouldn't think too long, we should live in choice. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435351 Bill Moyers Interview with Martha Nussbam melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435398 "It's when you are trying to live well, and you deeply care about the things you're trying to do, that the world enters in, in a particularly painful way. It's in that struggle with recalcitrant circumstances that a lot of the value of the moral life comes in" (311). 

-In conflict and trials is when we learn the value of a the moral life, a meaningful life. If we didn't give ourselves with a full sense of service, as Schweitzer suggests, we wouldn't have pain or struggles, but we would be stuck living an ordinary life. The Christian can also look at the difficulties as a tool used by God to bring them closer to Him and to make them more like Him. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435398 Immanuel Kant "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435452 "For as a rational being he necessarily wills that all his faculties should be developed, inasmuch as they are given to him for all sorts of possible purposes" (320). 

- It should be a natural thing for us to want to develop our talents. As Dillard says, we need to go after them, to yield to them. Our talents and gifts don't restrict us to one possible vocation, as Kant notes that there are all sorts of possibilities. What matters is that we use our God- given talents and gifts, not hide them as Gaskell says. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435452 Elizabeth Gaskell "The Life off Charlotte Bronte" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435538 "She must not hide her gift in a napkin; it was meant for the use and service of others. In a humble and faithful spirit must she labour to do what is not impossible, or God would not have set her to do it" (322). 

- Our gifts and talents have been given by God. He has set us out to use them. Hiding them and not using them would be considered selfish as they  are to be used to serve others. What could we be holding back  from others by keeping our gifts to ourselves? ]]> 2018-10-03 02:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435538 Will Weaver "The Undeclared Major" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435628 "What could a person be, I mean with that kind of major?"...."I would just be myself, I guess"..."Yourself, only smarter" (368). 
-Our vocation doesn't define our entire identity. We don't change just because of what we choose to do with our lives. What we choose to do is entirely between us and God. We hope that we have people in our lives who will support us, but if not, it means we have to rely all the more on strength from God. 

*As Wells, Heschel, and Sayers all mention, our identity does not solely come from our work. While our vocation plays a role in our identity, our identity comes from God, who is far greater than any vocation could be. Our choices shape us in life, but they do not define us. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435628 Vincent Harding "I Hear Them...Calling" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435672 "Callings are strange things. I think I've heard a fair number in my time, perhaps fewer than I was supposed to-or maybe it was more...Sometimes they proved to be nothing more than echoes...and passed on their way. Others puzzled me, and led me into ways I do not yet understand. Some I understand and fear. A few-perhaps more than I know-I have followed as far as they have led; and some are still moving" (396).  
-We don't receive just one call in life, but many. We seemed overwhelmed with them when we are younger and trying to decide what to be. These callings can offer a number of possibilities and purposes using our talents and gifts as Kant says. Harding's story shows us just that and also that our callings will take us on a journey if we follow them. Yet, we shouldn't go on this journey alone. We need to have God as our navigator as we go through these callings in our life. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435672 Roger Olsen "What is God's Will and How Can One Find it?" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435699 "I think of God’s will as a set of paints and a canvas. The canvas is my life. The paints are God’s gifting...For most of us, most of the time, “God’s will” is simply to receive his gifts of character and service and use them to paint a beautiful picture on the canvas of life he has granted us. There is no inflexible, rigid, detailed divine blueprint for every aspect of life such that missing one piece of it, whether through ignorance or disobedience, leads to a miserable existence. No doubt there are life decisions that call for careful, thoughtful, prayerful discernment. However, that discernment process does not involve waiting for a lightening-like revelation of God’s will; it normally involves rational, critical thinking and watching for doors to open and close...
“God’s will” is simply living a vital Christian life, being shaped in the character of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit, walking forward trusting God to guide."
-There is no set, detailed plan that God has for each of our lives. He gives  us unique gifts and talents, as well as his Word to guide us and shape us, but from there where we go and what we do is up to us. We don't have to live in fear that we aren't in "God's will" if we are living a Christian life- following his Word, striving to be like Christ and trusting in Him. He has given us gifts and talents, now it's up to us to find all the possible ways to use them to serve others and to show his love. 

*Being at a Christian college, we are able to explore the idea that God has given us more than one gift, more than one unique talent. We are encouraged to explore the gifts God has blessed us with and to use them for the greater good. There is the idea that once you get a degree in one thing, that is what you should do for the rest of your life, but God's plans are often different than our own. We can find peace in knowing that if we are living a life that honors Christ, we are following His will. ]]> 2018-10-03 02:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288435699 melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288436608 2018-10-03 02:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288436608 melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288946023 2018-10-04 02:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288946023 melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288946377 2018-10-04 02:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288946377 melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288947613 2018-10-04 02:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288947613 melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288948860 2018-10-04 03:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/288948860 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/289917074 2018-10-06 15:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/289917074 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/289941097 2018-10-06 18:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/289941097 olivia_divine https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290049431 "You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

-Our Enneagram and Myers Briggs tests show us the person who God has created us to be, whether that is the person we thought or not. In class, it was mentioned that these tests show us the parts of the house and rooms our personality lives in, but it does not emphasize us how God fits in to those parts. It is equally, if not more, important to understand how God is using our unique self to further His Kingdom. ]]> 2018-10-07 16:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290049431 olivia_divine https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290052089 Our work is often what becomes our identity and who we believe we are. However, if we do not know who we are, we cannot thrive in doing what we love. ]]> 2018-10-07 16:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290052089 olivia_divine https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290053589 "Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it" -Brave

-God has a special purpose for all of our lives that is established long before we are born. It is innate in us, and God uses the people around us to help foster the potential inside of us. We are made individually to work as a whole because we are not carbon copies of each other. ]]> 2018-10-07 17:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290053589 melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290054165 2018-10-07 17:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290054165 Coram Deo- "in the Presence of God" melanie_streeter https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290058463 "God has ordained his bride, the Church, to work for the blessing and healing of our broken nations. As Christians, we are called to engage—to create culture that aligns with reality as God created it—to witness to the truth. To love our neighbors sacrificially, just as Jesus taught."

This video, although it reflects an online course, has good content that I feel reflects what it means to help "transform culture through Christianity". 

The words that I reflected on after watching this video were "Living Lives that Matter". 

Notice the video does not talk about if you are a nurse then reach people in the hospital, or if you are a teacher engage with those at school. Rather we are to go out and be a light in our community regardless of our vocation. 

Matthew 5:13-16 
"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lamp stand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven."]]> 2018-10-07 17:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290058463 The Complication of Technology and Stuff morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290481092 2018-10-08 20:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290481092 Luke 12:22-34 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290481443 -Focus on the right things, don't worry.
-What do you consider your treasure? What do you value most?
-What's your heart set on?]]> 2018-10-08 20:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290481443 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290482475 2018-10-08 20:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290482475 Luke 12: 1-12 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290482728 -"Fear not" is one of Jesus' most repeated commands. 
-All will be known: the good, the bad, and the secret. 

]]> 2018-10-08 20:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290482728 Luke 12:13-21 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290483481 -Don't store up wealth. What's the point behind it? Life is fleeting. 
- It's not wrong to live well, but it's wrong if that's the ultimate goal over Christ.

]]> 2018-10-08 20:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290483481 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290485207 2018-10-08 20:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290485207 1 Timothy 6:6-19 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290485486 - You can't take it with you when you go, so pursue the greater good. 
-What do we trust in to get us to the next step?

]]> 2018-10-08 20:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290485486 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290486017 2018-10-08 20:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290486017 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290486418 Social media produces fomo- fear of missing out.]]> 2018-10-08 20:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290486418 Sherry Turkle- "Alone Together" morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290491202 -Social media can make us lonelier.
-We want to be connected and heard. 
-People need people, not a screen.  ]]> 2018-10-08 20:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290491202 morgan_jordan1 https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290492932 2018-10-08 21:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tiara_jones1/l2ba6k9ft34g/wish/290492932