Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

-1 Kings 19:11-13

Have you ever wanted to hear the audible voice of God? If your anything like me you do regularly… I wonder what it would be like to hear the voice of the creator, the one who was and is and always will be… Pretty radical when you sit and think on it huh?

I am in a strange place of transition and questioning… Not questioning my faith, but more my own personal calling by God. We are all called to some good work, from the beginning of time this has been true of all people. Currently there are 6.5 billion people in the world, each uniquely gifted and equipped to do some type of good work, to bless humanity, to serve, love and worship God. This obviously looks different for everyone. My life long friend Dan is almost done with med school, he has studied his butt off for years to become the best doctor he can be. That is his calling, that is his mission. Here is what’s cool that his calling and your calling and my calling may all be different, but have the same value and purpose. SO, this is what I am trying to figure out is what my unique calling looks like. I have some good ideas and indicators for what my calling looks like. I have always held onto what someone told me years ago, ‘your desires give some indication of your calling, your talents confirm a lot about that calling.’

I have been seeking wise counsel and praying about this pretty intently. I keep waiting for some type of divine intervention, and yet it seems to never come… Isn’t that how it feels at times, that every once and a while we simply cannot hear the voice of God. Either that or we’re trying to hear him in a way that he is not speaking. I wait and I pray, I look to scripture and others who I trust, and still I feel a sense of inner turmoil. I look to the earthquake and the fire, and God is not speaking there. But, in that quiet whisper, he does speak, if only I learn how to listen…