I’ve had a recurring conversation over the past few weeks. I may have touched on it here already, but it’s come up so much that I really don’t know where or when.
I’ve started noticing a frightening habit that many people seem to have, that is associating “calling” and employment.
(from the monster.com homepage)
I’m really struggling to wrap my head around the precise interrelation between who I am and what I do and God’s desire for what I do professionally. But, it’s curious to me - as the graphic above suggests - that even the secular world considers your job your “calling.”
I’m starting to think that maybe if there are 15 opportunities that strike you as strong possibilities, perhaps they are all equally acceptable options. Whereas, it seems that I’ve always been led to believe (for whatever reason) that there is only one”right” option among the thousands of “wrong” ones.
I think that we all want to believe that we were created for some specific purpose - and we are. The thing is, I’m realizing more and more that that purpose is probably not a job.
Thoughts?
