A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through. I would be like a taxpayer with rights. I would have done my duty and now I would deserve a certain quality of life. But if it is really true that I am a sinner saved by sheer grace -- at God's infinite cost -- then there's nothing he cannot ask of me.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.