The Call

Hi gentle reader. it's good to be back with you again.

This morning I went calling the dogs in for the breakfast and I started thinking about the word call. As I thought about it, we all do a lot of calling every day.

We call our pets, we call people on the phone, we call our kids. There are many different ways to call isn't there? Without the ability to call, our lives would be very difficult. Calling is an important part of our lives. It's all a part of the communication game we play through out our lives.

When I was growing up gentle reader, in the town Holden, Massachusetts. I had an English Springer spaniel dog named Whiskey. That's the honest truth,  gentle reader. Several years prior to having the dog I spent the summer at a camp. And they had a dog, you guessed it, named Whiskey. Several years later I had the opportunity to get an English Springer spaniel and you guessed it I named it Whiskey. she was a beautiful dog and we lived out in the country and she just loved the roam. Sometimes my father, would let her out at night so that we could go to bed. Usually at these times, Whiskey would stay close to the house.  once in a while she would  stray away from the house and my father would have to go out and call her in, you can imagine what the neighbors thought. Here's my dad out in the front yard calling Whiskey, Whiskey. It was too funny and all the neighbors got a kick out of it. so you see there are many ways to call.

But one way to call was unique and each of us have it. It's our unique calling.

I don't have to tell you that there are many terrible things happening every day and we start wondering whether the few things that you and I do gentle reader, ourselves make any sense. When people are starving only a few thousand miles away, when wars are raging close to our borders, and when countless people in our own cities have no homes to live in, food to eat, or clothes to put on their back, our own activities looks futile. Such conditions  like these can paralyze us and depress us.

It is here that the word call becomes important. We are not called to save the world, solve all its problems, and help all its people. But we each have our own unique calling, and in our work, in our family and in our world. We have to keep asking God to help us see clearly what our call is and to give us the strength to live out that call with trust. It is only then that we will discover that our faithfulness to a small task is the most healing response to the illnesses of our time.

Well that's it for now gentle reader. The buzzer on the wash machine went off and I've got to go take care of the clothes. it was good talking to you gentle reader and I look forward to our next conversation. Don't forget now-we each have a calling direct from God. We may not think it's a big thing, but it's all part of his perfect plan. All that we say, think, and do, should be done keeping God in mind and realizing that all things work together for good, even our unique calling.