Finding your Life’s Inner Calling
We each have hundreds of callings in our lives, some big and some small. Rather than one “life purpose” or mission, we actually have many opportunities to experience aspects of what brings us alive.
For me, I have followed my heart in various directions in my professional and my personal life.
Perusing the pages of Patheos I came across an interesting article. Its subject was “purpose and will” and in the post John Beckett opened that, believe it or not, we all have a purpose in life.
In his words:
You’re here for a reason. Maybe you have to discover that reason or maybe you have to create it, but there is something in this life you need to accomplish, or learn, or facilitate. You can do this great work not because the gods will make it easy for you but because your soul screams you must do it, no matter what.
It got me thinking about an fascinating little book titled The Call by the spiritual philosopher and “practical mystic” David Spangler. As the title implies, it’s about finding your life’s calling, your reason for existence, which might be the single most important task we face in life. This inner Calling is an interesting word, as it can literally mean to cry or shout out, yet it also alludes to our vocation. Ideally, we want the two meanings of calling to come crashing together—we want our vocation to loudly announce itself to us, so that we’re absolutely certain we’re on the right life path.
Take a look at your life, because in its texture and content, youwill discover why you are here.
Spangler suggests that we all possess a gift or talent that we are attracted to and enjoy doing, and that this gift ultimately connects us to others. This is our calling. It might be a talent for music or painting, or teaching a specific craft or skill-set—a gift that “not only uplifts us, but finds its fullness in being shared.”
It could also be a more subtle gift, like an ability to relate to children or an affinity for caring for animals or the environment, or even “being a great listener, one whose silence and empathy become a call in itself to draw out from others the toxins of despair or the sweet wines of enthusiasm and dreams.”
In the book The Power of Purpose, Richard J. Leider echoes Spangler’s advice telling us that purpose often finds expression through “family, community relationship, work and spiritual activities.” But Leider also takes a wider view suggesting that the pursuit of our calling is a continuing effort, a “process we live every day.” He advises us that:
Purpose requires a steady commitment to face each new workday with the question: Why do I get up in the morning?” The wisdom to ask and the courage to answer this simple question is the essence of working on purpose.
But perhaps the concept of purpose is best and most simply voiced by John Templeton. The businessman turned spiritual philosopher points out that “people who devote their lives to noble purposes automatically become happier individuals.” In his words:
Life’s most precious gift is to live for truth and goodness and forthe benefit of others.
It is something that Spangler, Leider and Templeton all agree on–that our calling is rooted in helping others, for it is here that we find the real reason for our existence and the true meaning of life.
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