To continue from the previous post's previous post's previous post (okay, are you confused? try to figure out please), I was talking about personal calling - our ultimate destiny - this very thing which we are to fulfill in our lives.

So nowadays, I ask myself, how do I know my destiny?

Then, I remember this analogy someone once told me.

There was this new object with strange alphabet and number pads lying on the table. Someone looked at it and tried to use as a hammer but it was futile attempt. The inappropriate action created a dent instead. Then someone tried to press the number pads, expecting music to come out. But nothing happened.

Along came the inventor of this new object, he wrote a difficult mathematical equation, pressed the appropriate numbers and signs on the pad... and viola! The mathematical equation was solved. Turns out that the object was a calculator.

If the inventor didn't show how to use it, we wouldn't know what it is made for. And if the calculator became a hammer instead of helped people solve crazy numbers, not only does the calculator get "hurt", the inventor would have been terribly disappointed as well.

So, to know what we are supposed to do with our lives, we have to ask our Inventor, the One who put us here on Earth! Who else, but God Himself?

I'm still looking out for "good omens" (in Coelho's The Alchemist's speak) which God scatters along the way, which will hint to me what my personal calling is. Seeking it is definitely difficult but I'm trusting the Lord in directing me to PLAN A (and not to some inferior Plan B or Plan C)!

Hold on tight to the Lord!