Personal Vocation & God's Will

"John Paul II handled his dying as he did out of the conviction that this was the form his personal vocation had taken — what God was asking of him as the final act of fidelity..."

This is from an article this morning on Catholic Exchange by Russell Shaw. I quote it this morning because it reminds me of something I read over the weekend in "He Leadeth Me" by Fr. Walter Ciszak SJ. He and a fellow priest have secretly entered Russia to provide the sacraments to Polish refugees and/or the Russian people. They find however that no one will even talk about religion with them. They are discouraged and wonder why they are even in Russia:

"And then one day it dawned on us. God granted us the grace to see the solution to our dilemma ... It was the grace quite simply to look at our situation from His viewpoint rather than ours. It was the grace not to judge our efforts by human standards, or by what we ourselves wanted or expected to happen, but rather according to God's design."

Isn't this the daily strugge we each have in living our personal vocation-to accept God's will for us-even when we think we are better suited for other work or when our expectations are not met. It can be hard at times to see His will and not ours.