
Your vocation: what is it?
It isn’t exactly the same as your career or job, says Jeff Goins, though it may include them. Its scope is life-long: it is the theme you will return to again and again, however many times your specific job description might change. The fact that I’ve gone from teaching English abroad to housekeeping for wealthy summer neighbors in the rural United States doesn’t have to rock my sense of calling: I just choose season-specific tasks that fit into an over-arching theme.
Vocation can be your profession, says the dictionary, or it can be a strong desire to follow a particular profession, God’s call to serve Him in a particular way, or the life itself that He has called you to. The English word vocation grew from the idea of being “called.” (In Latin, vocatus, which is related to vocem, or voice).
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