Calling....
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Lauren
What does God's call feel like? Look like, sound like, taste like, smell like?
Does it sometimes feel like a weightless certainty, and at others as urgent as two labrador puppies on a leash - busting to get going but not 100% sure which direction, just away, just acting, not standing still!
Is it sometimes a burden,and other times a joy? Sometimes almost clear, other times a mystery? Sometimes close and other times all-enveloping?
I have a call, an insistent, not always pleasant call.
'Feed my sheep, travel if you have you, but feed them! I don't need another pew-warmer. Time is short. GET MOVING!'
'But how, Lord? Alone? Do I need innoculations, a passport, a degree, a church to sponsor me? Could you tell me a bit more? Perhaps make some aspects clearer? Should I stay here, work in the community, feed the lambs whose language I speak and know?'
'You will know when you're doing it right, just DO IT. Time is short, the flock is hungry. Move!'
Or do I imagine it? Is this insistent urge just a fantasy, a hope that God finds me useful enough to speak to and encourage and whip into shape?
Please help me in praying for guidance, and for clarity. I would have said patience too, but I feel the impatience does not come from me...