By: Andrew Morgan

When we started Broken Voices, all there was in the beginning was a faint whisper, an idea that could barely be voiced, a dream that softly called. We still laugh now about an event we hosted for friends and family a couple of years ago - we were excited, we just didn’t know what we were excited about!

As we began to take simple steps, the whisper slowly turned into bold and clear leading. We merely brought the things we were good at and combined them with a growing need we saw in the world. “God we are all in on Your plan and Your story! How do You want to use our lives?” He answered that prayer and has not stopped stretching and growing us.

On tour this fall, I have talked with countless people who are asking how to hear God’s voice - How do I find His clear calling and understandable path for my life? These are understandable question I used to ask. What I’ve found though is that these questions can lead us to a very lonely and frustrated place.

God’s constant invitation on our lives is to trust.

In his book: “Ruthless Trust”, author Brennan Manning defines trust as, “A movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of a pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and promise.”

God is inviting us to trust Him - the kind of trust that is a choice before we know the plan. Direction might not come for you in the form of a clear long-term diagram; it could be little more than a faint whisper. Listen, take steps forward, and the whisper will become a beautiful voice leading you to the life you were made to live.