CALLING
You would think there would be some profound and
wise instruction for how to follow your life's calling, whether you believe
that calling comes from God, destiny, universe, or whatever. There is a
calling, or callings. You can follow it. But how it will be
revealed is acutely individual.
Of course you have to want a calling before you
can discern it. You have to surrender to something before you can be
called by it. It is a rare and curious thing in an age of materialism for
anyone to surrender to a calling. It is also a rare and curious thing in
an age of basic survival to surrender to a calling. Yet all are called,
but few accept it. You will be alone. Following a calling is
terrifying, fraught with doubt, a glorious madness, indefensible and inexplicable.
Yet once accepting calling, you can never again deny it, at least not for
long. You would have it no other way, the world's tawdry profits rendered
banal and tedious by a glimpse, even a fleeting glimpse, of Purpose and meaning
and the invitation to be a part of it.
