That insight is hidden in the word vocation itself, which is rooted in the Latin for "voice." Vocation does not mean a goal that I pursue. It means a calling that I hear. Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling the who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at
the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.
