I find the phrase “vocation is mission” satisfyingly descriptive. What it means is that which I do every day is my personal mission.

We are continuously changing people in an ever-changing world and we draw on tried-and-true instruments to form new experiences and things for us, and for people around us. That’s the inventive/creative power we have.

I love the creative work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. NT Wright said well, “Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God’s new Temple. They are… places where heaven and earth meet.” –Simply Christian

The Holy Spirit works with us and within us. He does not come through our door with a sign to announce his Presence-typically.

Try doing daily spiritual self-care, rather like getting ready a day of work. You may be amazed at how creative God can work in your routine little life. There are no spiritual heroes–just little human lives.

If we recall that God can and will be at work in our little lives, we may become gifts to those people we meet with every day. Perhaps one day when you show up, you will be for them, “another Shakespeare.” You will be a gift to those people–and you will not be aware of it, but the Creative God will be working through your little life. No, you won’t be dressed in religious garb, but you will be someone who lights up the universe by being who God has made.

“Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
Shakespeare has startled you with an image; but Shakespeare will not startle you with any more.

But, imagine what it would be to live with such men still living,
to know that Plato might break out with an original lecture tomorrow or
that at any moment Shakespeare might shatter everything with a single song.

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church
is a man always expecting to meet
Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast.”

• G K Chesterton, Orthodoxy