What is the call on your life?
Often we hear that phrase, especially in Christian circles, and it can make one uncomfortable, so let me break it apart for you. Each one of us is created in the image of God. We are prepackaged with a unique purpose. And we are meant to glorify Him with our lives, after all He designed us. But, we are also made, to do something so unique that it jazzes us.
A call is an inner knowing of a purpose, a nudge, a longing, and a gnawing.
I knew from the time I was nine years old I was to be a teacher. But, I did not sense the writing book bug until my 40’s. And it was not for the love of seeing my name on a book. It was for the love of teaching and educating women of God’s Word and relevancy to meet any need a woman has.
I sensed the call stronger and louder in my early 40’s.
Shift. Shift. Shift.
Women. Women. Women. Leave little loves of teaching…whispered in my mind and step toward coaching, speaking, teaching and writing.
That was 2006.
If we cling to the Lord, we can make it upright, when our life plan is turned upside down. (And that can happen several times, a life plan turned upside down.)
And this passage of Truth was a pathway for me as I begged God to bring me some joy and show me, why I was still alive in my early to mid-40’s when I lived with such emotional pain?
I definitely asked Him to sustain me, especially during the quarter of a century I lived in an emotional abusive marriage. And the last fifteen years were extremely filled with pain!
“Create in me a clean heart, God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And sustain me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach wrongdoers Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You” (Psalm 51:10-13 NASB).
And out of all this pain and passion and His plan, Hearts with a Purpose came forth in 2008.
I celebrate my 14th year (2022) of coaching women. One baby step after another.
First I had a name, Hearts with a Purpose.
- Then a website.
- A graphic designer.
- Newsletters.
- Emails.
- Coaching clients.
- Coaching groups.
- Courses I offered.
- Life plans I facilitated.
- One book came out.
- Second book came out.
- Third book came out.
- Fourth book came out.
- And two other books that are about written, are waiting for God’s timing to release to the world. Truly His lead. His call. His plan.
And someone recently wrote me and said wow, what a wonderful life you live. I wrote back, rest assured, this was birthed from tremendous pain and cost. And I close this quote that was in my morning devotions.
“You must bear the cross, or you shall never wear the crown; you must wade through the mire, or you shall never walk the golden pavement. Cheer up, then, poor Christian. “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.” Spurgeon, C. H. (1896). Morning and evening: Daily readings. Passmore & Alabaster.
What is nagging at you to give it some attention?
If you wonder, are you in abuse, here is a quiz for you! Take a quiz!
