<p>Being at home in the world can involve feeling addressed by the world in such a way that select discomforts or sufferings are called out of a person. These select discomforts and sufferings are experienced as being part of a person’s response to a previous and ongoing sense of call, and present as experiences to be protected rather than resolved. As the pastoral worker seeks the wellbeing of others, select care encounters may involve helping persons articulate their sense of self and world, discerning what discomforts or sufferings a care seeker experiences as significant, and which are to be resolved. In conversation with Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance, it is suggested that discomforts and sufferings that arise from the world “speaking” to a person might be experienced as significant, while those that “alienate” persons from self, world, and the divine, are better resolved or mitigated where possible. This way of looking at discomfort or suffering draws on the logic of the Christian tradition.</p>