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When God calls you

Sunday, October 24, 2021 (11:47)

This morning, while sitting in the bus for a rehearsal of the Misjonikoor (that’s worth another story), I felt once more that God is calling me to intensify my work as the Diocesan Contact Person for the Synod project.

We are having a kind of crisis in the core team. Yesterday I animated the second consultation meeting with the English-speaking community. I am experiencing a “stack overflow” of ideas. One of my ideas is to start a project Save the old mass rite! with Didier at least. And in case you fear that my professional engagement on Lino is suffering from this, I’d say the opposite: the customers are rather quiet at the moment (and I am highly efficient with answering incoming requests), Hannes and Sharif are doing research work, and they are motivated by the fact that I have been leaving them on their own a bit more than usual during the last weeks. I am aware that this is a situation for developing a burnout.

How do you recognize that God calls you? In the present case one symptom is the feeling that this is rather a call from “outside” than “my own choice or decision”. My reaction to our crisis was very surprising for myself. It’s not me who planned this.

How to be sure that it is God who called, and not some evil spirit, or my own vanity? Answer: I am not sure. You can’t be 100% sure. In simple situations you can discern afterwards whether this was God. But in the present case I guess that it will take generations before the people after me can tell this.

So I should always remain vigilant and humble, listen to the reactions of other people.