knowing your purpose :: the answers may surprise you
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner
You find yourself living a life of pioneer mission in a community house in the middle of a poverty stricken housing project when you were expecting to be at medical school.
You begin to ask yourself some questions.
One of those questions might* be, ‘wow, I didn’t realise I would crap out of my chemistry exams quite so badly.’
Another question might be, ‘what is God doing that He would lead me to this place, at this time, with these people, when it was no-where near on my radar of calling or purpose.’
And then you might find yourself leaning into a new learning of who you are, a leaving behind of the old ways, a growing up of sorts, a releasing.
You might find a depth of love and a fierceness of fire that you never knew existed within you.
Then, fourteen years later, when you’ve adventured to this point in time, spanning continents, hurtling from safety to danger, learning to trust in the Wild Jesus you follow, you might come to an understanding that it wasn’t about ‘Medicine’ at all - it was about Shalom. Justice and Wholeness and Restoration and Reconciliation.
And it all makes sense.
You just stuck a label that didn’t quite fit onto your purpose.
You’re called, in the words of Shane Claiborne, to be a ‘Professional Lover’.
* by ‘might’, read, ‘definitely’.
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