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Sunday January 19^th, Isaiah 49: 5 the Lord made me in the body of my mother to be his servant, to lead the people of Jacob back to him so that Israel might be gathered to him. I love the following statement on God’s calling from “Telling Secrets.”  God acts in history and in your and my brief histories not as the puppeteer who sets the scene and works the strings but rather as the great director who no matter what role fate casts us in conveys to us somehow from the wings, if we have our eyes, ears, hearts open and sometimes even if we don’t, how we can play those roles in a way to enrich and ennoble and hallow the whole vast drama of things including our own small but crucial parts in it.  

Fredrick Buechner, “Telling Secrets” pg.32  We are each called to do our part, we each have a piece of the drama of life to play, when our hearts are open to God's leading, we play it well indeed.