we are the ones we have been waiting for

clipping from sojourners --

When I was growing up, it was continually repeated in my evangelical Christian world that the greatest battle and biggest choice of our time was between belief and secularism. But I now believe that the real battle, the big struggle of our times, is the fundamental choice between cynicism and hope. The choice between cynicism and hope is ultimately a spiritual choice, and one that has enormous political consequences.

good words follow these -- all from Jim Wallis' Stanford Commencement address. He talks about vocation -- inspiring and challenging for those of us who often think of ourselves as adrift in that particular river of questions...