"We discover God's call by recognizing first that we were created not merely for the pursuit of personal happiness but to live the adventurous experience of a love relationship with God. This revelation should cause us to slow down long enough to listen to His dreams for the world and rediscover our desires to be a part of those dreams. What happens next is that God begins to paint you into those dreams and you become a dreamer too. The call of God on each of our lives is discovered through this process of intimacy with the Lord and His heart for us and the world. We all have a unique call of God on our lives because we were all made with the purpose of knowing God intimately and sharing in His eternal purposes." - from Unwilling To Concede by Brad Stanley