A Conversation - Seminary and My Vocational Call
Season 1 | Episode 41Today I talk about my journey as a seminarian at Princeton Theological Seminary, and how this journey was a difficult and easy decision for me.
For a while, I wasn’t sure what my vocational call was. In 2020 my admissions consulting business was not at the level of what it is now, and I believed I could multitask my business while pursuing seminary. I had spoke too soon.
In 2021, the business scaled up and I was working harder than I’d ever worked. Seminary seemed like a debatable path to take on, but that was technically a year away, maybe the business will scale up to a point where I could step away for some time. I was awarded the Grimke Scholarship from Princeton at the end of the year, and the path of my business and seminary began to become even muddier. My vocational call seemed like it was coming from different directions, and I wondered if it was possible to combine these two.
These past two years have been exciting and stressful years. I learned a lot about myself and the core commitment of bringing my full self into every room I walk into. God called me to share and to live authentically and boldly. I ask God to help us as we are discerning our vocational administerial calls. Whether that vocation is in a faith-based context or it's a ministry that is not necessarily in a faith-based context, but one that we can still share your love, I ask that you would be with us as we are working through issues of identity and community and vocations.
“Dear heavenly Father, I just ask that you would help us be bold in our faith. That you would help us share and be open to all the ways in which the multiple parts of our lives, our multiple identities, are truly intersecting...Help us claim all of our identities and live them out as one truth.”