Doing what you love will save your soul. - Jen Creer, seen on Facebook group I Picked a Major I Like, and One Day I Will Probably Be Living In a Box

This could be taken as one of those random, prosaic sayings that really has no meaning, or as something really liberal and relativistic. However, I choose to look at it from another angle. Our desires are generally not given to us for no reason. Even those sinful desires, the temptations we struggle with, are an occasion of grace for us if we rise above them. What about the ever-difficult question of vocation? Well, it is strangely very easy to forget the principle that grace builds on nature here. We somehow think that what we are meant to do (whether on the level of religious versus lay life, or on the level of career or lay vocation of some sort) will be a complete reversal of our past life and come out of the blue. Some things do come out of the blue, like when Our Lord appeared to St. Paul and he had his famous radical conversion from a persecutor of Christians to an Apostle of Christ. Even then, however, the fact that he became a preacher was something suited to his gifts and also something that he grew to enjoy and love (his love for the people he ministered to is evident in his epistles). This doesn't mean it was not difficult, but just that it wasn't a complete surprise and it also wasn't misery. Why should our vocation be misery for us? We are called to be joyful in Christ, and this includes whatever activities God calls us to perform--these should be occasions of joy for us.

On another plane altogether, "doing what you love will save your soul" applies to our relationship with God. We are supposed to love Him in this life, deeply, truly, so that everything that pertains to Him and brings us closer to Him will be what we love. Then, whatever we do will be for His sake and it will save our souls. The continuance of our love for God will be in heaven, where it will be another mode of being but not a change in the underlying desire. We will still have wills in heaven, but there, unlike here, our wills will be perfectly united to God's so that in participating in the Vision of God we will indeed be doing what we love, for all eternity.