the calling

i think “call” is not about something weird or hearing voices, although there are people who say they have heard them. i think it’s more about a long, slow recovery of whispers and glimpses, early desires, a discovery of the place, as Frederick Buechner said, where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need. it’s a growing attentiveness to things of a different order that I think are always present, but not always heard.

- nora gallagher



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