31 Days of Fiction for Girls

October means it’s 31-days time again! Lots of authors and bloggers spend the month of October writing 31-day-long series about all sorts of interesting subjects (click here to see everyone’s topics). I’m writing a series called “31 Days of Fiction for Girls” on my other blog, His Girls Together. In this series, I am posting 31 suggestions

Day 31: Your plan

Today we put it all together… My calling statement: God has created me to… My calling image: I am like a… My mission: I am called to… My plan: Through the Spirit I will… You’ve written your calling statement, decided on your calling image, and explained it in your mission. Today, as we finish this 31-day journey, you will

Day 30: The world’s deep hunger

Remember Frederick Buechner’s definition of vocation from Day 2? Buechner defines vocation as the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. Over the past month you have discovered your deep gladness, what makes you tick, what brings you joy. You’ve uncovered the themes that show up in your life again and again,

Day 29: Your mission

So far you’ve written your calling statement: I am created to… And you’ve brainstormed your calling image: I am like a… Now we’re going to put those two together and write out your mission: I am called to… Your mission will be a paragraph describing your calling. Let me explain by showing you how my calling themes came

Day 28: Your calling image

Today may be my favorite day out of the whole discover your calling journey. For all you visual learners out there, this day is for you. Today you will take the calling statement you wrote yesterday and transform it into an image. A visual representation of what you sense God created you to do and

Day 27: God created me to…

Here we go! Over the next few days, you will craft an image of your personal calling. Yesterday you read through your journal and highlighted the themes of your calling. Today we’re going to distill those themes into the first sentence of your calling image. Read back over the highlighted words, phrases, and ideas in your

Day 26: Themes of your calling

Your journal is bursting with 25-days-worth of reflections on your calling. Answers to questions designed to help you understand your unique contribution to God’s “supreme reformation project” that is going on in the world around you. Now it’s time to shift gears. We’ve asked a lot of good questions, and now you will turn to see

Day 25: I could do this forever!

When was the last time you had the thought, “I could do this forever!”? I often ask that question in the classes I teach on calling. Remember, I’m still operating under the principle that God made us for a purpose, and when we are living out that purpose something will feel “right.” We might even

Day 24: What were you like in the 3rd grade?

Or any grade in elementary school, for that matter. (Don’t think about middle school, you probably don’t want to remember what you were like in middle school :).) Back in the days before you started trying to “figure out who you are,” who were you?? When I was in elementary school, I loved waking up

Day 23: What motivates you?

What makes you want to get out of bed in the morning? A few mornings ago I woke up startled to see my 4-year-old standing by the edge of my bed. It was still dark, though the early morning light was beginning to seep through the bedroom blinds. It was not nearly enough light, however,