The Jonah story is subversive. It insinuates itself indirectly by comedy and exaggeration into our culture-sanctioned career idolatries, and while we are amused and laughing, our defenses down, it captures our imaginations and sets us on the way to the recovery of our vocational holiness. Caught by parable, caught by prayer — caught hesitating at the edge of the abyss — we are led gently but surely into the depths where we can develop a spirituality adequate to our calling. - Eugene Peterson

Artwork by Rachel Shogren