"The Calling" by David McLain
I love our
technology. I don’t have a Facebook page
and I never tweet, but I’m an email and text junkie. (I am an introvert and a writer after all...it’s more about getting it out than a back-and-forth.)
Occasionally, someone
special to me emails me a link to something that frankly, blows me away. My dear friend, Kim Gustafson did just that
last week. (This isn’t the first time
Kim has done this for me; Kim broadens my mind and has introduced me to much
that has expanded my thoughts.)
Kim met David
McLain’s wife years ago when the two worked together. David is from Maine and is
a professional photographer for National
Geographic. He travels for months at
a time for work – as do journalists, soldiers, diplomats, musicians, business
people, and many in our world. For those
of us who keep our feet planted on home soil, it’s foreign and out of our grasp
of possibility.
But….for those
inspired to do this, David has captured it.
Please watch his video “The Calling” below. His photography is breathtaking; his words
deeply felt; his truth resonates. I am
inspired by the beauty, by David’s words, by the depth of someone following the
lead of their calling.
David calls himself
a “pilgrim” and describes the “blessing and curse of the calling.” How I crave a job that “swallows you whole”
as David describes his. We can only hope
to be so lucky in life as to have a job that “swallows us whole.” He says “in 30 years, it never gets
old.” He wonders, “How can I ever
explain what I do and why I do it to those I love?”
I can only hope,
David, no one asks you to. Your answer
is crystal clear. Thank you.
