Let Your Life Speak

The word vocatio can also be translated voice. Man, that says a lot. Your vocation is your voice. The Quakers have a saying about calling that I love: Let your life speak. Finding your calling is about finding your voice — what cuts over all the din and drone of the other seven-billion-plus people on earth. The tune and tone that only you can bring to the table. Calling isn’t something you choose, like who you marry or what house you buy or what car you buy; it’s something you unearth.

You excavate. You dig out. And you discover. We usually ask little kids, What do you want to be when…