Calling

"Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do and everything we have is invested with a special devotion, dynamism and direction lived out as a response to God's summons and service."
-Os Guinness


"Vocation comes from the Latin vocare "to call" and means the work a person is called to by God. There are different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of society, say or the superego, or self-interest. By and large a good rule for finding out is this: The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need to do and b) that the world needs to have done... The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness/joy and the world's deepest hunger meet."
-Frederick Buechner