Your career will change five times. Your calling to love God and people won’t.

Job titles are containers, not contents. What you do for money will shift with the economy, with what you find you are good at, with whatever gets invented next, and treating one container as your identity makes every change feel like losing yourself. Underneath all of that sits one assignment that never gets reissued. Love God, love whoever is in front of you, in whatever building you happen to be standing in.

When somebody asks what you want to be, answer without panic. Ask instead who you can be good to in the place you are already in. That part of the plan is available today.