{"id":3477,"date":"2016-10-13T10:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T08:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augustinianheartblog.wordpress.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:43:28","slug":"created-to-share-gods-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/augustinian-heart-blog\/vocational-reflection\/created-to-share-gods-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Created to share God\u2019s love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-693\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agostinjani.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/img_20160723_094748.jpg?resize=2448%2C3264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_20160723_094748.jpg\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>The fundamental vocation of every human being is to love<\/strong>. This is not obvious to everyone today. Many people believe that human life is just an accident, a chance product of evolution, a meaningless event in a vast mechanical universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It is certainly true that our lives have been shaped by many different forces, but there is a much deeper truth that we can discover through faith: <em>Every single human being has been created by God out of love<\/em>. He made us so that we could know his love, and share that love with others, and delight in that love forever in the glory of heaven.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">So whatever you feel about your own worth \u2013 <em>never doubt that your life has a meaning. <\/em>God loves you and cares for you. You are precious to him and he has a purpose for your life, even if that does not seem very clear to you.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>How to Discover your vocation \u2013 Stephen Wang<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamental vocation of every human being is to love. This is not obvious to everyone today. Many people believe that human life is just an accident, a chance product of evolution, a meaningless event in a vast mechanical universe. It is certainly true that our lives have been shaped by many different forces, but there is a much deeper truth that we can discover through faith: Every single human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocational-reflection","category-words-of-wisdom"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Provin\u010bja Agostinjana","author_link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/author\/agostinjani\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The fundamental vocation of every human being is to love. 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