Vocare: Work as Calling
Vocare is the Latin word for “call” and it really begs the question whether we see our work as simply a 9-5 way of earning a paycheck, or whether we can find in it some sense of calling. We spend many hours every week working, and many years of our life. Is it just a necessary evil we engage in to put food on the table and pay the bills? Or can it be something more?
And by the way, just in case you were wondering, I don’t define work as ONLY that which gets a paycheck. It would be a foolish man indeed who claimed that raising children was not work (and I’m not that foolish). And for those who are retired, I doubt that you are sitting at home all day watching daytime soaps, but rather still active in some way, contributing somehow to the lives of others. This is all work.
In this series we’ll be looking at how we can integrate our faith with our work. Is it just taking the opportunity to share Jesus with a co-worker, or simply working honestly? Or could there be more to it? Spoiler alert: there’s more. Much more. Join us for this 6 week series as we explore what it means to have God@Work in you and your job, whatever that might be.