Have you heard the Call?

Have your heard the Call?
The Call to a deeper life - to a more powerful expression of you gifts?

Yes?

Well, there’s something bigger than you that’s got your inner attention. It’s knock, knock, knocking on the door of your awareness saying . . .  “Hello . . . Anybody home? Let’s talk.”

You can turn up the volume on the TV to drown out the Call.
Or throw yourself into highly demanding – but soul-deadening projects. Or overbook your schedule so there’s barely a second to pull your head up, look around, and wonder, “What am I devoting my life to?”

But distractions – even of the highly profitable kind – don’t contain the minimum daily requirements of spiritual vitamins that your soul needs. And when your soul is malnourished, every area in your life takes a hit.

So, how can you start to listen more closely and follow the Call?
First, let’s be clear – not by noodling on a business plan. And not by signing up for another program or reading another book on how to polish/upgrade/expand your personal brand/network/social media profile. Sorry.

You start by going into the desert.
Not the desert desert. But, just a place that’s empty of distractions. A place where you can feel the inner nudge of your undefended heart and let yourself be moved where it leads you. And rest assured where it leads you will thrill you – and terrify you.

Because the Call is all about courage.
Which means whole-heartedness. But, also whole-minded-ness. Not just heart. But, mind, smarts, savvy too.
And also about whole-bodied-ness – guts, sweat, muscular engagement with the world.

The soul needs all of you – heart, mind, and body – to do what needs doing.

The soul needs your best stuff and your worst stuff.
Your well-polished skills and your clumsy bits. Your flair and your flaws.

The soul doesn’t see you through the lens of dress-for-success. The soul knows that to serve fully – you can’t leave bits of yourself behind. The soul calls you to go “all in”.

The tendency is to wait.
To wait for a better moment. For things to be sorted out. For the schedule to calm down. For your net worth to hit a magic number.

There’s always something that could be a little clearer, a little safer, a little more certain.

But, there’s no safe place to be courageous.
When you step forward whole-heartedly, that doesn’t mean you won’t be trembling. Bring the tremble with you. The doubt too.

Life is always in flux.
Always not-quite-right. It’s messy. And it’s in the midst of life’s not-quite-rightness that you step forward to follow the Call. It is within the unsatisfactory and unsettled conditions that you say, “Yes!”

The broken nature of the world is your invitation to engage.
To lead. To live. To offer your gifts.. It’s your own unfinished nature, your own not-quite-rightness with which you act.

The incompleteness of the world and your own incompleteness fit each other.
That’s what the Call is telling you. It says, “Your need for wholeness and the world’s need for service complete each other.”

Heed the Call.

Love & Shanti,
E & D