🔥 Kindling — Chapter 7: Damascus

If you’re thinking this is just about Paul, pause.

This is about being stopped… and sent.

Start with the first question:

What advantages or opportunities have been entrusted to you?

Don’t think only of dramatic gifts.

Think of what you already carry:

education,
access,
experience,
influence,
perspective.

Now ask:
What have I been given that could serve more than just me?

Paul didn’t start empty.

He was redirected.

Now move to the next question:

How does Damascus challenge your view of calling?

Picture the moment.

A sudden interruption.

Light that changes how you see.

A path you didn’t plan.

Ask:
Where in my life have I been redirected—
not comfortably guided, but stopped and shifted?

Calling doesn’t always arrive gently.

Sometimes it interrupts.

Now consider:

Where are you being asked to “rise, see differently, and go”?

Break it down.

Rise — what needs to change in you?

See differently — what needs to be rethought?

Go — where are you being sent, even if you’re unsure?

You don’t need the whole road.

Just the next step.

Damascus was not the end of Paul’s story.

It was the beginning of his assignment.

And what you’ve been given
may not be for keeping—

but for going.