Calling

"If God has given you a dream and a calling, do whatever is in your hand to do right now. I like to say, 'bloom where you're planted'."
--Francesca Battistelli

God gives us the opportunities to follow His will and calling for us. Like an acorn must turn into an oak tree when placed in fertile soil, is watered and occasionally has sun pour down on it, we given the right conditions and opportunities will grow properly. As Helen Keller once said, "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

We have to keep our eyes open to what God is doing. When we miss a "door", often another is opened, but often times we realize we missed the "door" and going back, we try to open it and don't realize another has opened for us to go through.