Do You Know Your Calling?
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I listened the other day to an inspiring message by Kevin Miller on "calling." I was especially interested in the topic because helping people find their calling has always been part of my calling.
Kevin built his message around the Frederick Buechner definition of calling: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
That got me to pondering what my own calling is. I've known it for quite some time, but it feels like God keeps refining and clarifying it for me.
My calling is actually based on another quote, this time from Henry David Thoreau: "Most men live lives of quiet desperation, and die with the song still in them." My "deep gladness" has always been to help people to hear and express the song God put in them to sing.
When I was a publishing coach, I helped people express "the song" God had put in them. But then I realized that most people don't even know they have a song in them. Or, if they do, they can't hear it. there is too much "static" from the "heart issues" for them to even perceive they were made to sing, let alone hear and express the unique "song" that God put them on earth to sing.
So now, as a Healing Codes Coach-Practitioner, my call is to help people to heal from the things that cause them to "live lives of quiet desperation," so that they are able to first hear, then express, "the song that is in them."
And what is that song? A friend said, and it fits perfectly: "God's frequency of Love for each person." How interesting, she went on to observe, that I would use frequencies–which is what The Healing Codes are and what they unlock–to do this healing work.
My "deep gladness" is definitely a deep hunger of most people. I believe it is because GOD has put a song in each one of us. In the depths of our hearts, each of us knows that we were made for something great. Human beings were made for Love.
If you don't know what your calling is, I urge you not to settle for not knowing. You were made to know. I can tell you from experience that it is one of the deepest thrills of life to live out your unique calling. Heal the things that get in the way of your hearing and expressing your "song."
Healing is possible! It is available. Use The Healing Code from the book or The Healing Codes from the Manual, or contact me or another coach.
Please, please don't "die with the song still in you."
Diane, that was indeed an encouragement. I guess it made me think of how important it is for my children to see their mother to be whole and healed of the spiritual issues of the heart, in order for them to find their song and sing it with their whole heart. I have felt the impact on my young children when i do the codes. It is nothing short of divine. Without a spoken word I see miracles happen in not only mine but also my childrens lives. Praise God!!!
Annbritt,
You are so right! The best thing you can do for your children is heal yourself and “release” the Code to them. I too have seen miracles.
Thank you for a beautiful creative expression of "calling." Something I have desired clarity for most of my life. My deep inner cry is Lord what is my calling? My name means "song of joy" but my life has been so filled with pain–inside and out. After much prayer and Biblical searching God answered me. I learned to best summarize my calling by identifying my life purpose: to encourage, equip and empower people as we prepare for God's eternal kingdom. How God manifests my actual calling is not by my title, position in church or job. It is by how I live my life… Read more »
Carol,
Yes, calling and purpose are really very linked, if not the same. So glad you know yours now. Isn’t it an adventure to let God show you each day how to express that?
And yes, the Healing Codes are another means of intercession and personal prayer. That’s exactly how I see it. It’s just another spiritual discipline.
I have been very blessed to know my calling. I am a emotioal Healer for all the walking wounded. It is through my walk and my life and my love for God that I am able to do this. Nothing excites me more than to know I was able to touch a life and in a positive loving way and to lift people up to the sky and to reveal to them how very precious they are to God. I have been so incredibly blessed in my life by the people who have touched my life. My childhood was a… Read more »
Michele,
Thanks for sharing your beautiful calling and your testimony of God’s grace. May it be a word of lfie and hope to others.
Diane, am I missing it, or are the dates on posts on your blog? I like to know how current I am with what I'm reading and I haven't been able to find the dates of your posts. Would it be possible to add that, please? Or tell me where I'm missing them! LOL. Thanks, Lisa
I don’t have them dated. But the most current are on top. They are posted in order. Dates make them, well, dated!
So true…no need to date what you share has eternal significance and value!
Diane, what a beautiful post! Love the photo and deeply touched by what you said. I can't agree with you more. So many folks go through life just existing, not following their dreams. Break out! and make your life's work what you love! Be happy!