I believe we are all called.

We are all called with our giftings, our talents, our circumstances and most of all we are called by what God has placed in our hearts. He has entrusted to us the desires of His heart that we may be called into action. That we may use all that He has given us to serve Him. To be His hands and feet to love on others. To care and to see need. To be the person who will step out and extend our hands to pull up another who has fallen.

I truly believe that.

I feel that God has been opening my eyes to things that I have never noticed before. To see people in a way I have never seen before. Something feels different. Maybe the only way I can only describe it is like an itch. Like there is something inside deep in my soul that will burst if I don’t let it out. If I remain still. Unmoving. Immobile. Something would be lost.

I believe we are called beyond our own strength, intellect and understandings of our suburban world.  We are called to something so much bigger than ourselves, beyond what we can see. Something so big that without God, it would virtually impossible. I want to reach forward and experience it. I want to see it with my own eyes. To immerse myself in it. I want that. I want to be in a place that I am so expectant and reliant on God that if He doesn’t pull through, all could be squandered.

And then, there is love.

If there is anything above all else I wish to grow more in, it is in love. But not only to just love but how to love more. I want to know how to love when its not easy to love, in those times when everything inside me is squirming to give up and walk away. I want to know how to make ‘love win’ when love is rejected. I want to feel my heart expand past the outer walls of comfort into the destitute places of humanity. To even those destitute places within me.

It is only through the outworking of love that a human heart can be changed. I am praying that God will give me His heart and love for people. And in the same way that God has shown His immense love and grace to me, that He may use me. That my love, like His, would also inviting.

I believe we are all called. Into love and action. I pray that we would never callous our hearts that we can no longer sense the gentle breath that He whispers deep into our souls.

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