Confusing Call

[Emmaus Lessons - VI]

What do you do when your thing dies?
Your project closes shop?
Your program crumbles?
Your role runs out of funding?

Nothing. You’re doomed.

That is, if you confuse your thing, project, program, or role with your vocation. They aren’t the same.

One is merely the temporary manifestation of the other. If they were the same, vocation would be called occupation and your thing would be called your job description.

But they’re not.

Your vocation comes from a deeper well.
From a part of you that is more True and more Real than the desk you sit at.
From a place where the divine touches you deeply and leaves an imprint.

We all need jobs (and job descriptions). Even more, we all need a vocation (and a calling). The former comes and goes. The latter prevails (and is comfortable sitting at different desks).