"Called"

"'Not called!' did you say?

'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world." -- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

This quote was part of the sermon preached yesterday at church by our youth director. When I read this I don't see people around the world. I see in my mind a certain kind of people - women who find themselves unintentionally pregnant and not sure where to turn. For awhile now crisis pregnancy has been on my mind and I always figured I would volunteer at a center after I graduate and can give them a nurse as well as a body, but lately I have been feeling that what I really need to do is volunteer now, if only to sweep floors. This is where my heart is and has always been. Anyway. Just had to share.