Mark and Rex tackle the topic of vocation or calling. There are many things that can occupy our time, but what are we called to do. Finding one's true vocation is the key to a fulfilling life. Rex and Mark will quickly note that this does not mean fulfilling our calling will be easy though.

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Well, welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore, and I'm joined by my esteemed co host. And it's Rex Gurney. Ryan Julius Rex Gurney the third I'm gonna say every time, every time on this episode Rex, we're gonna look at the topic of vocation. Okay. And when you start any conversation, I think it's really important to define terms. Maybe that's just part of, you know, the scholarship world. We're a part of philosophical world, even, you know, it's

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always about defining terms, so much misuse of language right now that you know, right.

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The only thing probably the only place in my life that I found it is not helpful is when I'm communicating with my wife. Okay. And you want to deliberately vague Yeah, you want to vague or in the middle of maybe like an argument. You don't want to stop and be like, let's define terms that hasn't gone over well, in my life, I can see that I see that, especially questioning how she's using a word right now. Is that what you mean? And then that doesn't go well. So I usually just shut up in my patio. Yeah, we can learn we got to learn these things. We got to. But But what's the words? So with the word, vocation, I think it's important to it's kind of a common word. In our vernacular, we hear it a lot, especially in the Christian community, right? You hear vocation, we also use the word occupation. And I feel like sometimes we use them interchangeably. Okay. And I think it's important to note a difference between those two words between vocation and occupation and between vocation and a job or whatever, right? Yeah. Yeah. Cuz it seems like when it vocation comes from kind of that root word in Latin Bokhari meaning calling, so vocation is calling an occupation really does come from that root word that means to occupy your time, right, that something occupies your time work occupies your time. And those two concepts are really different. Right, right. Calling and occupying your time. And, and and not all the ways do. Our does vocation and occupation line up right in our lives. And so I think it's, I think it's important to kind of know, that difference between my calling, and then maybe what my current occupation is, and, and I had a, you know, in college was in a 90s, college rock band, right, you know, it was a rite of passage. Everyone had to whether they could play or not, right, yeah, whether you could play well the beautiful thing about the 90s is you needed like three chords, power chords, and just turn up the distortions. Right. And, and you had it. So but we, there was this really great because yourself, the vocations is this vocations? No, we were actually call ourselves paradigm paradigm five, because paradigm fog, cuz we were in a worldview class, and we heard paradigm and our drummer was like, Oh, that's a good band name. So yeah, you know, it's a mixture. Yes. So we got to use our words carefully in class, because they might be best ones coming up. That's right, might be new, new bands, but there was a piano player at the church where we all went. And he was a great musician. And he was kind of a traveling musician throughout the 60s. And so we kind of as a band really got mentored by him and and they're, some of the guys in the band traveled with him and a different kind of conventions and things. And he just had really good little quips and advice on being a band and, and really kind of calling and vocation and he told us one time he said, he said sometimes in the music world, is that sometimes you play to live like you just play a gig to get money to live, but sometimes you live to play and and that was just that it was interesting when he sa