The
Voice ©
By
Michael Casey
A
vocation is called a calling, a voice talks to us and then we listen, sometimes
finally listen, then we embark upon a journey, it can be a spiritual journey, a
physical journey, or a literal journey. How many people have a vocation
nowadays? How do you know you have a vocation in the first place? You can be
pushed or pulled into something, your family may encourage you, or put a gun
against your head to force you to have a certain vocation.
The
Irish in America became cops, my own cousin is a cop in Boston, being a cop is
a good job, a steady job, and the police force is one big family after all, so
it IS a good vocation. What do cops’
kids become, they become cops too, or if they are girls their dads’ may
encourage them to be lawyers, its safer and warmer too.
Why
do we need this voice to call us? If we are to sacrifice or donate our lives to
something we should have a pull towards it, it’s not just a job, it’s not just
any job, a calling , a vocation IS our life.
We may all work in a call centre at some stage of our lives but it is
not our life, yes I agree for some girls and in the main it is girls call
centre work is their life, it suits them. What makes the vocation call out to
us? In the Bible there is the passage where God calls out to the boy, 3 times
God calls out and finally the boy after talking to his master waits and listens
and replies to God, “here I am” or words to that effect, you can Google the
Bible for yourself. So a vocation is like a magnet it pulls us towards it, and
once we are attached, we are glued to it.
A
vocation is like a lover or a wife, it’s our passion and it bears fruit, it is
everything to us, me I write as you all know. Others may teach music to the
choir in church, Betty teaches choir at my daughters’ church, she is 84 and
still going strong, her passion for music keeps her alive, she pours music into
all whom she teaches, it’s this kind of sharing that answers the call.
Learning
to listen for the vocation, for the call, is
important too, life can be so busy they we cannot hear the call. We need to
step back, to step away and let the force touch us, whatever we want or should
I say whatever we could be will be revealed. Yes I know most of us do a job to
feed and clothe us, only the lucky few do what they enjoy. As you know I write
because it’s in me and I’ve not made a penny from it, but I’ll always write because it’s my
vocation.
So after you’ve read this make some quiet time, have a pint of Stella
or a mug or Horlicks and just get all mellow, listen to Barry Manilow or
whatever gets you in the mood, and let rainbows fill your mind and fill your
heart, and listen just listen to the whispers that’ll grow into a roar, for
your vocation is calling you.
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