Redefining Calling

The Path Before Us

The concept of calling can anchor us in purpose or imprison us in disappointment. It all depends on how we decide to define calling. When we draw unyielding parameters of expectation around how God will specifically connect our passions with the world problems, we set ourselves up for failure. Calling belongs to the Caller, not to the called. 

In the early days of her recovery, Katherine bristled at being the miracle girl in the wheelchair. Surely this wasn’t the life she had been promised or the calling she’d been assigned. There had to be some mistake. Before long she began intersecting with other miracle men and women with their own physical and invisible wheelchairs. She realized her people and platform weren’t collateral damage in her stroke. These were her people and the pain was her platform. God had called her to survive, to be the living embodiment of His hope in the world.

As those who are called, our role is to join the dance of the world’s needs, God’s purposes, and our own giftings. Rather than trusting our perception of what constitutes an obstacle, we can surrender to God’s gracious and omniscient planning. We are empowered to persevere in the comforting truth that His universal calling for each of us remains the same today and forever: to be a witness to the light from within the darkness.