"When our children turn 18, we hope to happily launch them into the world to become the adults we've spent nearly two decades preparing them to be. Their pathway is clear: most will go to college, find a vocation and then a true love (usually in that order), and settle into a comfortable life, while their parents keep in touch through occasional phone calls, family gatherings, and surprise trips home for Christmas. But now more than ever, these expectations fail to acknowledge the significant challenges faced by many young people, from a pandemic to racial unrest to a climate crisis that is setting the world on fire, figuratively and literally. While young people are consistently told they need to divine God's calling, in Finding our Way Forward, Melanie Springer Mock draws on her decades as a college professor and mom to four adult children to explore how finding our way means developing a more expansive understanding of calling for ourselves and for the young adults we love, one that moves beyond vocation and capitalistic enterprises to what God really calls us to: seeking justice. Loving mercy. Walking with humility. Loving others. Loving God. And in these relationships we can all be transformed as together we find our way forward"-- Provided by publisher.