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3 Ways to Discover a Calling Worth Pursuing

WHY SETTLE?

Katie Davis was just 18 when she happy with my life; in general, I was, importantly, the people in it, and she
traveled to Uganda for the first time. but I couldn’t help feeling envious of a did something about it. Usually, we
After expressing a desire to do young woman who wasn’t afraid to punch in and out of our days on auto-
missions work after high school, Katie live differently than what people had pilot. We assume that where we are
made a deal with her parents that expected of her. I found myself feeling now is good enough. And if we do
went something like this: She could go the freedom that graduation brings dream, perhaps we think our dreams
to Uganda for a year and then return while somehow also feeling like my are too big, so we don’t step forward
to the U.S. to go to college. Katie life was already decided and planned at all. In general, the world has
spent that year abroad and fell in love out for me. In my mind, I had a vague decided what is normal and defines
with the culture of Uganda. When she image of myself attending a nearby for us a good way to live our lives.
headed back to the States she was university, studying feverishly for four Unfortunately, we listen to it.
certain that she would one day see years to prepare me for the career of
that soil again. And sure enough, she my dreams. I would meet a guy along Why do we settle for a life others
returned to Uganda less than a year the way who was attractive and expect of us? Or for a life we expect of
later. She eventually became a single ambitious to do something that ourselves? Maybe we’re feeling the
mother to 13 adopted girls by the mattered. We’d settle down into a pressure of providing for a family or
time she was 24. house and maybe have a couple kids. we have a strong desire to please our
We’d save up and take vacations out parents or professors. Maybe we think
I was 18 when I first heard Katie’s west or down south to escape the jobs that if we work really, really hard,
story, and it was hard to not feel like we worked so hard for. I’d be happy, we’ll be happy. Maybe we feel
my recent high school graduation, not and it would be a good life. Average, unsatisfied because we’ve never really
to mention my life in general, was but good enough. given ourselves time or permission to
nothing but completely and utterly dream up big dreams. Maybe it’s
average in comparison. I had never Katie Davis did something different. because you’re not thinking or feeling
left the country or dreamed of doing She was a Christian, felt a call from much at all!
something so radical. Not that I wasn’t God into missions, and she obeyed.
Katie fell in love with a country, more