Originality

I had a professor in college tell our ethics class that he would give anyone an A who could come up with just one original thought. Nevertheless no one was able to come away with an A for their original thought. I never really thought much about that statement other than it being an amusing collegiate anecdote until this afternoon while I was doing some studying. C.S. Lewis in one of his addresses included in The Weight of Glory says this, "No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought." There is a great truth in this statement that I have heard over and over again in life, do the best you can at telling your story and living your life, whatever that entails, then you can be used to accomplish great things for God. God calls us to all sorts of different vocations. There isn't a hierarchy of holy callings, rather each one finds the holiness of his or her calling as they do it well. Most people aren't going to reinvent the wheel in our respective vocations, it just isn't necessary, but we can be faithful at proclaiming God's truth in our lives and our vocations wherever we are, it is in doing this that we stumble upon something original and grand.