What's Your Calling?

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One of the exercises in a book I am reading asks us to create a little dialogue. The purpose of it is to discover our calling.

The general premise is that we all choose to come here and we all have a specific reason for doing so. In this exercise, we write an imagined conversation with Source.

It's a fun exercise, really. I hadn't quite considered it this way before.

I was conceived in May of 1951. Harry Truman was president. At that time, the Korean war was being waged and Truman, along with his advisors, were trying to negotiate a peace treaty with North Korea and China. "A Place In The Sun" was showing in theaters. Willie Mays won the Rookie of the Year award. Dr Clarence Dennis performed the first open heart surgery with an extracorporeal machine to control circulation. The patient didn't survive.

And I can imagine a conversation something like this taking place in late April or early May.

God: So, what do you want to learn this next time?

TG: I think I should probably learn about transformation of ego and compassion. I need to learn about those things.

God: You think so, eh?

TG: Yeah.

God: Do you want it the easy way, in which case I can just put your happy little ass in a Buddhist country, or do you want to learn it the hard way, in which case I will put you somewhere else?

TG: Which place will I learn best?

God: You'll learn best, I think, in New York City. Then I'll move you to California. There's plenty of ego in those two places.

TG: M-yeah. No kidding!

God: And I am going to put you with Bill and Helene Cr....

TG: What are they like?

God: Well, they're not very mature yet. Helene already had a baby boy and Bill had to marry her because she was pregnant.

TG: Oh, geez.

God: They don't really love each other, but they're trying to make the best of it.

TG: Oh

God: You will learn about honor that way. You will learn about commitment. But it won't be easy. Because they don't really want you. It won't be a secret. But you must know that they've agreed beforehand to participate in you learning this lesson, so you must not blame them.

TG: I'll try.

God: And you will some times. The point is that you have to grow beyond it.

TG: I see.

God: You will spend most of your life disconnected from anyone or anything. You'll romanticize that but you'll learn soon enough that you will pay a price for it.

TG: Romanticize it? Are you going to make me stupid?

God: No. Not stupid. Just unaware. I am going to make you unaware of many things. You will get your wish. You will know absolute freedom.

TG: Why is it that what you're saying scares the hell out of me?

God: That's the point.

TG: I'm not that clever.

God: You will have to learn what is important in life experience and it's not what you might be led to think. You'll be told that surface things, social status and money will give you freedom and happiness. In fact, I'm going to put you in the pinnacle of that kind of thinking. I'm going to put your butt in Beverly Hills! (laughs)

TG: Oh. uh oh!

God: You will spend some time as an adult wandering the earth without anyone but yourself. It won't be by choice. You will either learn or you will be very miserable, m'dear.

TG: Now you're scaring me.

God: You should be. You are very resistant. You have a problem with pride and arrogance. You need to learn these things.. and you will! But don't forget that I will always be here and you will always have what you need to fulfill your mission. But you will have to pay attention enough to recognize it.

TG: How long will it take? Can I have a crash course?

God: Need to know basis. You don't need to know. And it is a crash course. Just use the tools I will provide for you along the way and you'll learn all you are supposed to learn.

TG: Okay then.

God: Do you see that little blob of ooze in Helene's womb? Get down there. Now.

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I think I get the message. :)


Peace,


~Chani