TRANSFORMED | Transformed Vocation | Ephesians 2:8-10 | Week 8

 I want you all to know that in a few weeks it's my birthday.  I wanted to give you time to get presents.  And it's the big one --- 42nd!  A couple years ago, I turned 40, and as most of us do when we hit a milestone, we spend time reflecting.  I started looking at what I had accomplished, how God had used me.  A question that most of us ask at certain milestones of our lives --- Am I where I thought I'd be at this point in my life?   I wanted my forties to be an awesome decade, so I decided to attend a TED conference---TedX: Mile High.  I grabbed some friends and I was excited. The theme was "Wonder."  My hope was to be inspired and to reflect and to dream about the next decade or two about my life and dream about the next season.  

Wouldn't we like to experience "Wonder" on a regular basis?  I liked that the program had speaker profiles.  Then I started looking at the speaker list:  

• Tamika Mallory - one of four organizers of the Woman’s March on DC and civil rights activist 
• Dick Durrance - famous photographer/journalist - pics of Vietnam - National Geographic 
• James Orsulak - owns an asteroid mining company and title is Space Entrepreneur
• Doug Vakoch - Runs an organization “dedicated to transmitting intentional signals to nearby stars and fostering the sustainability of human civilization on multi-generational timescales, a project that could take centuries or millennia to succeed.”   What are you working on?? I had to ask myself, "Where were those things on the list of possible vocations when I was in high school?"  I never saw space entrepreneur or interstellar correspondent on the list or I would have been the first to sign up!