Comments on: How to Find Your Calling

By: Zoe Ali

Zoe Ali — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:09:21 +0000

light switches should be made from oxygen free copper so that they last longer~*`

By: sarah henry

sarah henry — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:07:45 +0000

I do think we all have a calling (or two), though others might call it something else. Like you, writing in my own voice brings me a lot of creative, emotional, and professional satisfaction –
on a good day, when I feel I’ve gotten it just right.

Call me crazy, I even like the days when getting it right proves quite a challenge.
sarah henry´s last [type] ..Summer Birthdays Rule

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:09:26 +0000

Awesome Alisa! Thank you! I forgot this over the summer. Only God defines me, or leads me to the switch or a new switch, or a new switch in the same spot. Not only is it painful for me when I give my spouse God’s job, but surely it is a terrible burden on my spouse too. Makes sense why he or anyone would rather escape than look at the face of someone they love who is expecting too much.

I have many different jobs but they all stem from my gifts that God has grown in me my whole life. Every adversity, and every blessing has fertilized, rained or shined sun down on those gifts. Amazingly, and not for the first time, I forgot about all of the years He has spent with me, and what they mean. Lately I’ve been looking around instead of looking up.

Thank you so much for following your calling.

By: Sarah Liz

Sarah Liz — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:14:49 +0000

Thank you for saying that you can find many callings in one lifetime, I think I’d have to agree! Honestly, I don’t think I have ONE calling, I think I have many….I think I’m here to be an instrument of God, to share my optimisim, gratitude, hope and strength with the world, and I think I do that every day–well, most days! (Maybe not last night as I was in a mood, but hey, I’m entitled sometimes). I think one of my callings is to write, but I also know that I have to hone that for a while first. I was meant to be a member of the family that I am, that was definitely one of my callings. And I’m not sure about the others, but I just feel like even if I never decide on one specific thing, I can still be of service to the world. Not because I’m super special or unique or anything, and not because I’m better than anyone else, because I’m not; but I am wise and I am strong–and good under pressure and during crisis. Lately, I seem to be cementing all of that.

Anyway, thank you for this wonderful post!

Many Blessings,
-Sarah Liz

By: Angel/Tawny

Angel/Tawny — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:06:13 +0000

Thank you for this, Alisa!! You have, once again, helped us all to see something very important in a new light! Finding your calling in life is not an easy thing, by any means, but I think that these are very good pointers for getting started!! You are very much appreciated!

By: Alisa

Alisa — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:50:13 +0000

Kerry–like “this little light of mine…” That makes total sense.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:22:25 +0000

Alisa,
this may seem a bit of an off the wall response but — do you know the music of Carrie Newcomer? on her latest album, Before & After, for example, there’s a song in which she uses a small flashlight as a metaphor for vocation/calling, for example.
Kerry´s last [type] ..music and focus

By: Drummer Guy

Drummer Guy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:55:26 +0000

Thanks Natalie, Never really thought of it that way. I do currently use my education in my church through teaching, playing music & other areas. Just not from a staff position. Then again I always knew I was never called to Pastor. The divorce just reinforced that. You right in that the two can easily been seen as one in the same. Never really thought of it in those terms. Thanks

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:42:14 +0000

Ha! I totally get bent out of shape over the living room furniture! Guess I need to get cracking on looking for that switch. Great, spot-on, inspiring post.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:25:35 +0000

You wrote: You can argue with my observations. They are not scientific by any means.
Only because no one has spent the money “testing” this. But I think you are spot on.

Point #1: I never get paid for what I love – helping people. It’s not my job. I’m a housewife. But it is what I love and I do it as necessary. Just the other night I helped two friends via chat on Facebook. I knew there was a “reason” why I wasn’t sleeping, even tho I was tired.

I’ve had my calling since high school. Friends and acquaintances have always come to me for “advice/help”. I’m a good listener and I give “options”, not advice per se.

Yes, a “calling” can improve your marriage. For me, the other night made me feel so good – not about myself, but because I helped two people that truly needed help at that time. (One was a guy – and most guys keep quiet about problems. And this guy was keeping quiet, except with me. Because he knows me and knows I’m there to listen and gently guide him.) I’ve been feeling more confident since the other night. I just wish I had more opportunities to help people. But then, maybe I don’t wish I had more opportunities. The people I helped the other night were truly hurting. And I hate to see people hurting.

Looking for more meaning???? Not sure how to answer that question.
Do what you LOVE. Don’t do anything for money. Yes, we all have to work to make a living. I worked to make a living – as an accountant. Not what I loved. But I am good with numbers. My last “job” I ended up getting to design and run the rebuilding of an office space – what I truly wanted to do – be an architect. And at the same time, make sure we didn’t borrow money to do it. That job encompassed all my desires – investigation (embezzlement), designing a space, decorating a space (picked colors, furniture, lighting, etc.), made the company money, and worked with people. I loved it. So, even tho I was working for money, it turned out that I landed exactly where I wanted to be – using all of my abilities at one time.

Now, why did I leave that job??? Oh, yeah, I completed my “mission”, it had no more to offer me.