Crosshairs of Grace

Assume that you believe that this world is all there is and that life is over when you die. What job would you choose? Why would you make that choice?

Assum­ing that this world is it and that life is over when I die I would choose to be a coun­selor. I would make this choice because I enjoy help­ing oth­ers. I love the sight of another per­son or cou­ple sud­denly get­ting an epiphany and real­iz­ing that things are not quite as bad as they thought.  Peter Kreeft tells us in The Case for Faith

Even peo­ple with­out reli­gious faith are aware of that dimen­sion of suf­fer­ing. And if we can bring good out of evil even with­out bring­ing God into the pic­ture, you can imag­ine how much more, with God’s help, evil can work out for the greater good. (Stro­bel, 2000, p. 45)

I would also choose this pro­fes­sion because of pas­sion. Sev­eral years ago, I was read­ing Dare to Desire and was awak­ened by the truth of the fol­low­ing pas­sage: “Don’t ask your­self what the world needs. Ask your­self what makes you come alive, and go and do that, because what the world needs is peo­ple who have come alive.” (Eldredge, 2002, p. 39)

Help­ing oth­ers become all that they can be, help­ing them to find their desire, their pas­sion, makes me come alive. Watch­ing them come alive is the great­est reward one could ask for.

Eldredge, J. (2002). Dare to Desire: An Invi­ta­tion To Ful­fill Your Deep­est Dreams. Nashville: TN: Tomas Nel­son Publishers.

Stro­bel, L. (2000). The Case For Faith: A Jour­nal­ist Inves­ti­gates the Tough­est Objec­tions to Chris­tian­ity. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.