Your Calling By Andree Seu: An Analysis

To quote my grandmother, “the easy road is not always the right one.” No matter how easy it may be to push my beliefs to the side and just accept whatever job may come my way, the journey back from compromise is far harder than anyone would like to imagine. In her article “Your Calling,” Andree Seu commented “You had better think twice about saying to yourself: “I need to suck it up in order to be light and salt in this (town). What kind of light and salt can you be now? You have just taught them that you are willing to compromise your convictions.” In 2001, it was stated that design as a practice does not have much of a conscience, even if individual designers do” (Keedy), however I do not believe that this has to remain true. I fully believe that if each designer embraced the conviction to never compromise who they are for a job, the standards of excellence in the industry would shoot through the roof. …show more content…
When he carried the cross on his back through the streets of Jerusalem, he was not comfortable, he was in the greatest pain one could imagine. Yet he continued. When he asks us to take up our crosses and to follow him, I don’t think that he expects us to endure what he endured. I believe he is saying is that no matter what the cost, we must take up our faith and carry it with us everywhere we go, no matter who we meet. Often, I believe that Christian’s view vocation as a calling. This is not a wrong perception; however, I do think that there is far more to it than that. We are called yes to share the good news of Jesus. We are called, as stated in Romans 12, to use the talents and gifting’s that the Lord has instilled in us. And we are called to be the light, or rather a reflection of Christ in us, in everything that we