Listening to Your Life It’s Never Too Late to Start by Michael Valliant It might not make the most sense to go back to school when you are turning 50. Or maybe it makes every bit of sense, since it didn’t make any before. Shaking up life when a lot of people are looking for cruise control might raise some eyebrows. But not listening to your life when it is trying to tell you something can be much more dangerous. In his memoir, Now and Then, Frederick Buechner writes:
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” For Kelsey Spiker, Jessica Stehle and me, listening to our lives meant enrolling in seminary through a
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