![]() ![]() Vocation is following our calling to seek the welfare of the world we live in. Garber suggests that vocation is when we come to know the world in all its joy and pain and still love it. who helped Congress move into the Internet Age, to name a few. We also meet with many ordinary people in ordinary places who long for their lives to matter: Jonathan who learned he would rather build houses than study history, Todd and Maria who adopted creative schedules so they could parent better and practice medicine, and D.J. With him we meet leaders from the Tiananmen Square protest who want a good reason to still care about China. Garber introduces us to a wide range of people he has met over the years as they seek to make sense of the world and their lives. ![]() But what if the vision of vocation can be recovered-allowing us to step into the wounds of the world and for love’s sake take up our responsibility for the way the world turns out? We become cynics or stoics, protecting our hearts from the implications of what we know. From marriages to international relations, the more we know, the harder it is to love. Is it possible to know the world and still love the world? Of all the questions we ask about our calling, this is the most difficult. ![]()
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