[Tension & Renewal - XXIX]
We all have a call. That’s not a religious claim as much as it is simply putting a word to what I’ve observed in everyone’s life with whom I’ve ever worked.
Sometime after our teenage years, which are preoccupied with differentiating ourselves from our parents and coping with inordinate amounts of hormones, we settle into a "personality.” It’s often a hybrid of the person we think we should become (out of duty, obedience, or conviction from childhood) and the person we discover in our short life (through youthful exploration and ego building). There’s nothing wrong about this “personality.”
Everyone with their “personality,” which is to say *everyone everywhere*, eventually is confronted by a terrifying question. We haven’t outright avoided it, but we know subconsciously that all the work that has gone into building our “personality” is not sufficient in helping us answer it.
We know deep down that more work needs to be done.
New resource will need discovering.
A new depth of our own self-knowing is our only chance.
The question: What am I really here for?
The adventure to answer this question is the beginning of true renewal!
