God Calls (Vayikra 5785)

And God called

God calls
Do we answer?
Are we Jonah - trying to run from it?
Are we Isaiah putting up our hand:
Hinenni - I am here
     Listening
     Ready

Sometimes God calls,
pointing the way and we’re excited
to go
     to follow
          to (ad)venture forth
We are eager
We go
     willingly

And sometimes God calls 
and it’s more like a command:
Go!
And we know we don’t have a choice
We can fight it, sure,
     we can try
but deep down we know
that the winds of fate will sweep us up 
and deliver us (in the belly of a fish, perhaps)
one way or another
     So we might as well go

God calls
If you haven’t heard it 
you haven’t opened your ears
You haven’t asked:
Where must my feet take me?
Where must my life take me?
You haven’t sat quietly and deepened 
into your own heart

God calls
If you’re pretending you haven’t heard it
it will niggle at you
     And then it will gnaw at you
          And then it will thunder in you
until you can’t pretend anymore
It could take a day, or a 
     lifetime

God calls
Is calling
Will call
Has called and will
call again

And God called

And the rest followed
And the rest will be 
But it begins here
With a call