From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby
A person who has wrestled as much as and as deeply as anyone I know with questions of vocation and occupation is Steven Garber. He founded a not-for-profit called the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture, designed to prompt reflection and understanding at the intersection of those three spheres, and he’s written and spoken widely on the subject.
In his book The Seamless Life, Garber writes of the words vocation and occupation that, “The former is the longer, deeper story of someone’s life, our longings and our choices and our passions that run through life like a deep river; the latter is what we do day by day, the relationships and responsibilities we occupy along the way of our lives, more like the currents in a river that give it visible form.