Signpost: What is your Calling – Online Book
This chapter of a book entitled “Our Souls at Work” covers the issue of calling in a professional context. David Miller provided most of the framework for the topic opening with a great quote from Martin Luther King Jr
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” It’s not necessarily what we do, but how we do it.
He then poses the question…
“For those of us who are followers of Christ, we know our purpose is to be holy and glorify God. Many of us interpret “glorifying God” as making known his Kingdom and his ways. So how does our workplace fit into such a purpose?”
If you are searching for your calling in the context of your work maybe this chapter is a good place to look to give some insight.