Top Highlights

• The goal of life is not less work but to know and embrace the good work to which we are called.
• We each will ask, What is the good work to which I am called? And only you or I can answer this question. We each have to make the call; no one else can do it for us. Yet it is equally important to stress that although we each make the call, we cannot do this alone.
• What follows are the crucial and pivotal questions each of us needs to consider and engage: What on earth is God doing? Who are you? What is your stage of life? What are your circumstances? What is the cross you will have to bear? What are you afraid of?
• No doubt, our calling is always a calling to love God and to love our neighbor. This is a given; vocation is always about fulfilling the call to love. Love conditions everything; it demarcates each dimension of our lives. Even when we move into solitude—the solitary work of woodworking or gardening or sermon preparation or prayer—it is still work t...
• And this is the fundamental call of the Christian: to love God and to love our neighbor. This is the baseline that informs every dimension of the work to which we are called. But do not confuse love with misguided generosity. To love well means to discern well—to discern how I am being called to love God and love others.