Lisa asks:

Dear Father Anthony,

I have always enjoyed reading vocation.com.
I`ve learned so much from you.
Although my vocation is marriage, you have helped me apply what you say to those considering a Religious Vocation, to my own Vocation of Marriage;
Such as today, June 13, 07.
Your response to Daniele about "dying to self" was so well articulated.
I too, must learn to do so in my Vocation of marriage. It can be hard at times, and I tend to look at the "box" and not the diamond, that is inside.
Giving of your self to another, in the way God is calling each of us to do, and that too is a gift in itself. And in doing so, my gratitude to Christ, grows more and more.
Thank you Father Anthony,  for your advice. 

In Christ,

Lisa

United in Christ,

p.s. I am still praying for my sons vocation, as you suggested to me several years ago in a letter you wrote to me, "Do not ask if he has a Vocation, but that God grants him one."
I do so everyday. I always end my prayer with: God`s will be done and not mine.
Thanks again Father.