Please, Do Not Follow Your Passions

Author:
Luke Bobo
Date:
April 28, 2025
Type:

Luke Bobo writes that finding one's vocation can be a non-linear process and may take some time. We are not all born with the same opportunities, and our passions may change, or be self-centred, so it is not a given that they result in us finding our vocation...

"In the film, Barbie, songwriter and singer Billie Eilish asks a vocational purpose question: “What was I made for?” As believers, we might say that what God has made you for, vocationally speaking, is your vocational purpose. For some, they know their vocational purpose early in life. But for many of us, we must embark upon an exciting, and often disappointing, nonlinear journey to discover our vocational purpose.  In the words of Eilish, we must persevere until we can confidently answer the question, “What was I made for?”"

https://depree.org/de-pree-journal/please-do-not-follow-your-passions

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