Daley Ponderings

I was recently asked to speak at IVCF at CMU on the topic of Christian view of success and vocation.  I am supposed to talk for 15 minutes, which will probably go very fast, so I need to be more concise than I usually would be.

Our topic for this Large Group is the Christian view of success & vocation.  We chose specifically to have this topic on that day because the university's largest job fair is happening that day as well.  So students will already be thinking about internships & careers.  CMU takes pride in the good job placement of its graduates, but students definitely feel the pressure to know exactly what they're going to do with their lives right now.  Therefore, we thought that it would be a good idea for our students to hear from you about your experiences in choosing your career paths from Christian perspective.  Since there are 3 of you, you'll each have about 10 - 15 minutes to introduce yourself & to tell us your story: your educational & career backgrounds, what you're doing now, how you made your career decisions, how being a Christian influenced your career decisions, how your views on success might be different because you're a Christian, etc.  Then, we'll have some time for questions, & you can wrap everything up with any advice you might have for us as college students.  Ideally, this would be interactive so feel free to do whatever you can to help facilitate that. Some background on our group: we'll have anywhere from 35 -50 students ranging from freshmen to grad students of all majors (although approximately 2/3 of the group are technical majors) from across the country/world.

Thoughts on what points I should hit?  I'll probably email the other two folks who are coming, and see if we can coordinate a little bit.

At our pastor's birthday party, Billy did a caricature of our pastor, and "quoted" him as saying: "Don't use notes - any sermon worth preaching is one that you can remember."  I agree with that, and that doesn't count sitting down and memorizing it either.  But, I am planning on using that model (I suppose that is what I always have done when speaking, so I guess it is just more intentional this time) next Tuesday.

Hrm. I don't have a category for this post to go in, so I guess I'll put it in "Reviews", since I can at least review the evening once I am finished...