Love made visible

It’s
very difficult to plan a career in the midst of economic turmoil, when you're calculating starting
pay against your debts, and you don’t even know if the job you're preparing for is going to be there when you graduate. In the beginning of our
careers, it becomes particularly important to ask, what did God have in mind when God was knitting us together? What is our vocation?

Once you finally get
a job, then you need to get a “real” job. Then you can expect laid-off at least
once in your career. Then you have to re-tool and enter the workforce again. Then
even if you get your “dream” job, you might come to the realization that you’re
destroying your family and your personal life, and the dream becomes a bit of a nightmare. Then you begin to realign all your goals. Then you begin to
look toward retirement, and you begin to imagine what your vocation is going to
be when you retire.

In other words, the question of
vocation is something that most of us struggle with all of our lives. And at
each point, we hear voices calling us.