This morning a few of us gathered for breakfast and listened to part of last month’s Woolman Hill Quarterly Meeting talk by Diane Randall, General Secretary Emerita of Friends Committee for National Legislation. It was refreshing to be reminded by her that “we are not called to be successful. We are called to be faithful.”
Our experiences and beliefs of What, or Who, calls to us, guides us — God, Jesus, Allah; a Holy Spirit however named — will differ, as of course will our experiences of what we are called to do from moment to moment. But Diane Randall’s invitation to ask ourselves, at the beginning of each day, “What am I called to do today?” is simple, wholesome, wise and, despite the different answers we will get, unifying — as is her invitation to ask ourselves at the end of the day, however our actions followed or diverged from our calling, “Have I been faithful?”