Part I
Getting Started with a Calling

Since a called life is never a finished product, in significant ways we are always at the beginning and renewing stages of answering our calls. In this first part of the book we start with basic notions: what calls are and do (chapter 1), how we can recognize the types of calls that creep or crash into our lives (chapter 2), and how calls don’t show up in our lives if we let the world, rather than our will, guide our decisions (chapter 3).

When I talk about basic notions I mean fundamental and foundational, not simple or remedial. There is nothing remedial about answering calls. It is all graduate-level work.

If you understand calls, recognize them when they show up, and believe you have received one or many over the course of your lifetime—especially when it doesn’t feel like it—you will set the foundation for a called life.