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Finding Your Calling – Is it always joyful?

This past Friday, I had the privilege of joining Ben Merens on Wisconsin Public Radio to discuss Finding Your Calling with Ben and his At Issue with Ben Merens listeners. While Ben is a professional, and so gifted as a talk show host, I am a newbie so my learning was great! I’d like to share it with you as it lands in me. For starters, the title we selected, Finding Your Calling, was HUGE! And given how the discussion evolved, I realized I hadn’t looked up the definition of “calling” and wondered now what I’d find:

calling: a strong inner impulse toward a particular course of action especially when accompanied by conviction of divine influence

Okay, that’s what I thought! Here’s what transpired. Calling and Purpose and Passion were used interchangeably by us – and our callers. And at one point, the question of “Does a calling/purpose/passion have to bring joy?” was raised. Realizing I may not have addressed that question thoroughly, I’d like to revisit it here.

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Where We Are Whole

Oh that you would stop to see
the glory that is you
for we do choose who we will be
each day our whole lives thru.

And if our choices we deflect
for others’ lofty goals
in essence we have chosen
to betray our sacred souls.

Yet if, instead, we choose the way
of deep and inner passion
withholding not our energy
and from ourselves do fashion

a life of deepest knowing
as we flow throughout our days
then by the river of our making
will the neighbors stop and graze.

Strengthened by the life that teems
from all that we project,
each blessed man and woman
will have learned to self-protect…

and listen to the calling whispered
deep within our souls
and see with utmost clarity
a purpose and a goal.

And we will choose to feed the hunger
deep within our soul.
And we will feed each other
from this place where we are whole.

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Unblock Your Life – the World is Waiting!

Are you ready to blossom into the amazing uniqueness that you are? Or do you believe that “living large” and “creative expression” are for someone else while you follow the norm and do as you are told?

Do you desire a life with more freedom and joy yet find yourself locked into caring for the physical demands of home, family, health with no energy left over for the extravagance implied by the words like “joy” and “play”?

Do you long for the day when it’s your turn to receive, to nurture your inner spirit?

The freedom to live life creatively, to discover and develop personal talents, to honor our individual perspective is not just possible, it is a responsibility! Continue reading “Unblock Your Life – the World is Waiting!”

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The Perfect Time

Tune in to what’s left unsaid
after all have gone to bed.
In the silence of your mind
thoughts do spin. And therein lie

the dreams to which your heart aspires
sung for you by heavenly choirs.
Listen that your inner ear
may discern the guidance clear.

Each of us our life must live
using gifts that we’ve been given.
Grow our talents, skills, and wealth
and give the world our precious selves.

For buried treasures lose their luster.
Mounds of doubt and fear: they fester.
Later, when our skills improve:
then, we say, we’ll show the world.

Yet when another takes the stage,
our dreams cry out as jealous rage.
Spewing forth the rotten stench
of self-rejection turned to hate.

Now, ever the perfect time
to be ourselves and share our rhyme,
to gift the world in all we do.
I go forth. And now, will you?

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2005

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The Path

The world may not be ready
for all I have to share.
But Spirit is my teacher
and I must not despair.

Each creation I have nurtured
is waiting for its turn
to shine in God’s creation.
Someone needs to learn.

Another option waits
and I have found the key.
‘Tis mine to co-create
with the Master in the lead.

Strength is ever-present
for the next step I’m to take
provided I move forward
free of worry for my fate.

So, every day I travel,
blaze a path that’s all my own.
Spirit’s my companion
so I never walk alone.

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2005