Suddenly, Abraham stands out, he entrusts himself to a God who is one, a sole Being. Because he was touched by this God. He was given something new to which to belong and he and all his sons, his women, his slaves, the people he had, his servants, everybody, became a distinct people in the midst of a confusion of peoples. It was a bundle of needs, a quest, a desire, a tension, but it did not detach itself from the rest, it did not come away from the rest, it drowned in the rest. As he says in The Religious Sense , the more ingenious man was, the more he managed to perceive Him who dominates everything, the dizzier he became at never getting there.
Vocation is for a task, vocation is for building something.
It means that you become necessary, that you are wanted. For us it is exactly the same, because we too have been touched. We live in mystery and have been personally touched by Mystery, and our little bit of consciousness, of awareness of ourselves is founded on this. We have been touched, we have been made to belong. This presence which has marked us will not be taken away from us again, because it is not something we wanted ourselves.