I Hear You

I got an early start this morning. I started driving while it was still dark. 

While I was still driving in Nevada, in between Fernley and Lovelock, this morning before the sun had risen, I was listening to Peter Gabriel. As I heard him singing, "I hear You calling me on from the great escape," it led me to reflect on my journey. I feel I hear God calling me. I feel like that's a separate question from whether or not one is discerning properly. But I feel like I addressed discernment related to my current journey in my first blog post on this new blog. 

In that particular lyric, there's also the question of the great escape. Certainly I don't feel that, and leaving the position I just left, I was escaping from my supervisor and my coworkers, who are just fantastic people, who, if anything, were reasons for me to stick around. As far as the job I just left, I think it gets back to the question of whether one is pursuing one's deep joy. And if one isn't, then that definitely is a great escape to make. 

In that same song, there's another lyric which struck me as being resonant with my current journey. As I was still listening to that particular song, I heard Peter Gabriel also sing, "The further on I go, the less I know." I was reminded of how, in an interview I had last week for an internship for this coming academic year, the topic came up of cultural humility. We were discussing how there's so much we don't know about other people, and how, for that reason, it behooves us to have cultural humility. So for that reason, I do think I have been realizing that the further on I go, the less I know.