"Is there something I am born to do?"

"Is there something I am born to do?"
This is a million dollar question, well at least for a Career Consultant.

This is the million dollar question I am trying to 'solve' for myself, but I discover it has become an blinded, egoist trip. It is at the end a pursue of self-identity, and it has become a pursue ahead of God. It has become a pursue of its own, or maybe it was the intention of the pursue from the start.

We all have very grand idea about ourselves. Something we are born to do, and it is ususally something great and when the 'job' does not show up, we feel demotivated, short-changed, missing out on our 'destiny'.

Mahud was a simple man who lived in a small village and made his living by selling vegetables at a busy market. He was comfortable enough and liked his work. But one day the angel Khabir appeared to him and told him to jump in the river. Without thinking, Mahud leaped into the flowing water.

He was carried downstream until a man on shore threw him a rope and pulled him out. The man offered Mahud a job in his fishing business and a small room where he could live. Mahud appreciated the man's kindness and took the job and worked at it, rather happily, for three years. Then Khabir appeared to him once more and told him to move on.

Mahub obeyed immediately and walked from village to village until in one place a man offered him a jonb in his fabric shop. This was new to Mahib, but he took the job and learned the trade and worked there relatively happy until the angel appeared again and sent him on. Mahud worked at odd jobd for years in this manner, alwys moving along when the angel instructed.

When Mahud was an old man, he had gained the reputation of a holy man. Peiple begain cxoming to him with their illnesses and worries begging him for cure and counsel. One day a visitor to his village asked him, "Mahud, how did you get to where you are now?"

Mahud thought for a moment and said, "it is difficult to say."

It is difficult to say because Mahud's only talent was his openness to the directives coming from the angel whose name means "The All Aware." Mahud had the precious ability to recognize the call to move on and the openness of the heart to follow it.

This is a story about calling and obedience to the call. But let's remember that at root obedience means "listening". To find your way you have to pay close attention to the signs about when to change your job, when to get unstuck and reenter the flow of life, and when to retire to a life of healing and teaching.
Unfortunately for us, an angel isn't going to physically appear and tell us what to do next. But the angel of the story does represent something that is real for all of us: a sense of destiny, vocation and direction. The word vocation comes from the Latin word vox, voice. A vocation is a call.

Why would a sense of direction in life be called a "vocation"? Is the voice of the angel only supernatural or mystical? Or is there something natural about the capacity of life to "speak" to us and gives us hint where to go?
The question is not so much does the world give us a direction, but are we able to read the world for its information? Are we able to also sense our calling from our internal inclination.

Well, if we are so full of ourselves, can we hear?