“Call” is defined as:
1. To order or request to undertake a particular activity or work; summon. He was called to the priesthood.
2. A claim on a person’s time or life: the call of duty.
3. A strong inner urge or prompting; a vocation: a call to the priesthood.
Among the various definitions I have found for “calling” are:
1. An inner urge or a strong impulse, especially one believed to be divinely inspired to accept the Gospels as truth and Jesus as one’s personal savior.
2. An occupation, profession, or career.
3. The particular occupation for which you are trained.
4. A profession, or as we usually say, a vocation (1 Cor. 7:20). The “hope of your calling” in Ephesians 4:4 is the hope resulting from your being called into the kingdom of God.
People ask me (I may have mentioned this before) if and when I am going to write a book detailing my recollections, advice, and feelings about the six years I spent litigating Conservatorship of Wendland. I have no plans for a book . . . just this blog. To write a book, I would have to focus all my energy on that endeavor to the exclusion of other activities, which would be impossible. It would require an intense emotional and psychological commitment. I would have to really “hunker down” and relive the events that took place in a concentrated, intentional manner over a specific time interval. I’m not ready to do that and don’t know that I ever will be. This blog allows me to comment about bits and pieces, here and there.
The cost was too high.
The following comes from the AP:
Injured Man’s Brain Rewires Itself
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
(July 4) – Doctors have their first proof that a man who was barely conscious for nearly 20 years regained speech and movement because his brain spontaneously rewired itself by growing tiny new nerve connections to replace the ones sheared apart in a car [...]
eth·ics (thks)n.
The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the conduct of the members of a profession.bioethicsn : the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD.Emanuel & Robert Hart Professor of BioethicsChair, Department of Medical Ethics andDirector, Center for BioethicsUniversity of Pennsylvania3401 Market St. [...]
When I first heard about Art Caplan’s latest little get-together (see below), I e-mailed him to chide him about the glaring lack of balance in the line-up of speakers:
“Looks like another lopsided symposium.
I find it intriguing that you guys never invite members of the ‘enemy camp.’ I mean, c’mon, you could at least invite Wesley, [...]
The following is from the North Country Gazette, February 13, 2006.
by Pamela F. Hennessy
On April 30 and May 1, 2006, the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics will be hosting their 10th annual symposium. Their case study for this year’s gathering has been titled “The Legacy of the Terri Schiavo Case: Why is it so [...]
The following is from the North Country Gazette, February 9, 2006:
by Pamela F. Hennessy
Yet another case
Throughout the past few years of being active in the campaign to protect the life and basic rights of Terri Schiavo, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet a number of learned and thoughtful people in and around the disabled community.
Technorati [...]
My good friend, Wesley Smith, debated Florida bioethicist Bill Allen on Court TV on March 24, 2005, as Terri Schiavo lay dying in a Florida hospice.He then wrote about that exchange five days later in the National Review Online, and had everyone, including Rush Limbaugh, who read his article on the air, buzzing. Wesley effectively [...]
The following comes from Father Frank Pavone’s most recent message to supporters of Priests for Life:
You may have seen on the news that I was at Terri Schiavo’s bedside during the last 14 hours of her earthly life, right up until five minutes before her death. During that time with Terri, joined by her brother [...]
A friend writes:
And He is smiling, a bit sadly, and saying to Karol Wytola, “I was hungry and you tried to feed me.” And Karol, now unbent, will say, “When did I try to feed you, Lord?” And He will point to Terri Schiavo and Robert Wendland, now beautiful and vital in their glorified bodies [...]
I don’t know about all of you, but I am just plain weary of hearing about, thinking about, talking about, contemplating death.
The world spent the past two weeks on two deathwatches, the likes of which I don’t recall ever observing before.
First, of course, there was the murder of Terri Schiavo. The world watched in stunned [...]
http://www.robertslegacy.com/2005/04/02/two-weeks-two-catholics-two-very-different-deaths/
