IT'S YOUR CALL - 3

When people have a mid-life crisis, when people develop health issues, from skin rash to cancer to allergies to a heart attack, they are getting the kick in the trousers – the call they can’t ignore any more.

My story isn’t very dramatic – I had it good – my career was zipping right along, I thought, till our department was rather abruptly dismantled. My job played far too big a role in my life – I was in over my head with much of what I was doing. My job was stressing me out, but I didn’t notice. I had allergies – sinus problems – my nerves were raw. I didn’t have the tools for self-analysis and introspection that you can learn from classes in the Science of Mind. We used to have an expression – “I was like a guy with one leg at a butt-kicking”. I had no clue, and no clue that I had no clue.

I was shuffled to an unfamiliar job – and I buckled right down. In less than a year, a second shuffle removed my entire level of management from the company. I was shuffled to a new job that was somewhere between my old level and the bottom rung. Within months a new VP had deleted my new job and others like it.

I was stressed, discouraged, grumpy and angry – and I walked across the downtown, in an ugly November wind, to a meeting about possibly moving to another city. In an episode that I have described in detail on other occasions, I got the big kick in the pants – a voice in my head that was NOT mine – saying “You need to become more Spiritual.”

This is the way Spirit works in us – from the inside out – providing first an urge, a desire, then sometimes a kick in the pants – but calling on us to be, not someone else or something else, but to be outwardly the person we were made to be inwardly.

We have complete freedom – but remember our inward choices are still ours – not someone else’s. There is just more of us than we can be aware of, and that greater self remembers what we came here to do. It remembers who we really are. When we aren’t connected with It, we are separated from our greater selves.

Your call may not lead you to ministry as mine did – likely it won’t – but trust me, you are being called – to something. You have an urge, a desire that you are either following now, or ignoring.

Remember, it’s your call. Are you listening?