I didn’t fully appreciate this truth in the first half of my career. I poured myself into my career, made it my life, my identity, and in that, a subtle twisting happened. What was that twisting? I believed this: The God who had called me to be a reporter would equip me to be a reporter. Instead of believing this: The God who’d called me to love God and love people would equip me to express that love through my vocation, whatever that vocation happened to be.