Not that type of callings.

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We religious types talk about callings a lot. Christians of the Calvinist mindset even call all work, “your calling”. Other Americans have caught on, and many spiritual people of various types talk about callings. It’s not a term restricted to people of a particular faith, or even of any faith. Saying that you have a calling seems to encapsulate something important, something big.

I think that Calling is an important topic for most hidden high potentials. We use the term when we talk, seeing many of your frustrations through of the lens of frustrated calling. It’s an important topic, one that I’m now convinced I have to deal with openly. There’s just one small problem.

What in the world do we mean?

The obvious answer is “a verbal or internally verbalized command by a god to perform some task”. Hercules had a “calling” to clean out the stables. Jonah had a “calling” to preach to the city of Nineveh.

Of course, once we get into a more modern time we hear that God told someone to do something and think, “Crank”. That shows a good deal of prejudice on our part, for there are many thoughtful people who claim to hear a divine voice in visions, dreams and even waking hours.

For most of us, however, that doesn’t happen. Yet we still feel this thing that seems to fit with the term “calling”. You may even be one of them. If I press you, you may find it very hard to really say what a calling is, or even to describe your calling in any detail. Having to defend that you have one challenges it, and you begin to doubt what you still feel as real.

I think that we can do a little better than that.

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