The Calling That Costs Something

“Run from what is comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”

Real purpose costs something. It asks something of you that comfort does not ask. It requires you to risk, to sacrifice, to choose the harder path when the easier one is available.

This is how you know it is real. The calling that costs nothing is not a calling — it is a preference. The work that requires nothing of you is not your work — it is a hobby.

The things worth doing in this life are the things that ask you to grow beyond your current self. They ask you to be more patient, more courageous, more honest, more committed than you currently are.

This is not punishment. It is the mechanism of growth. The calling that costs something is the calling that changes you. And being changed is the point.

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