{"id":1111,"date":"2015-02-15T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T07:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/2015\/02\/15\/the-calling-out\/"},"modified":"2015-02-15T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T07:03:01","slug":"the-calling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/the-calling-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calling Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever thought about the people who have spoken into your life? People who became your impetus in becoming who you are today.<\/p>\n

I have had several people who have spoken into my life over the years causing me to pursue things I\u2019ve never thought I had in me. When I married my husband, Greg, I made it very clear I would be happy to sit in the front row when he spoke at marriage events, but I would never get up with him and speak. In the back of my mind, I was remembering my college Growth and Development class presentation where I literally looked down and found my legs shaking out of control. After that horrifying experience, I knew public speaking would never be in my future. Over the years, Greg would ask me to just share a story or two when he was speaking. He continued to speak words of encouragement to me about what I did well and then suggest one or two things to focus on the next time I spoke with him. In essence, he called out the \u201cpublic speaker\u201d in me. I had no idea she<\/i> was there!<\/p>\n

I had a friend ask me to speak at a woman\u2019s event, and I immediately declined. One precious friend encouraged me to not say no quite so quickly because she thought I\u2019d do a great job. Begrudgingly, I agreed to the 30 minute talk on female friendship; although I didn\u2019t sleep for nights before and practiced my talk so many times with Greg present, he said, \u201cI could have given the talk on female friendship word for word in my sleep!\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this to say \u2014 we have enormous power in the feedback we give each other. I had no idea that the potential to speak publicly was even in me. I didn\u2019t see it but others did!<\/p>\n

I want to be a life-giver in other\u2019s lives. I want to call gifts out in others \u2014 especially when they don\u2019t see it! Often, as a friend, we have a perspective that allows us to see someone\u2019s undiscovered potential. It goes both ways\u2014be open to others when they \u201ccall something out of you.\u201d And also watch for the hidden potential you see in others and take the time to \u201ccall it out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

We were not created to live in isolation \u2014 we were created to exist interacting with others. Who is in your life right now needing that encouragement? Maybe you need to be an impetus to help someone pursue an unidentified gift? Instead of letting these opportunities pass by, let\u2019s be dream-makers!<\/p>\n

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\nErin Smalley is the mom to three girls, ages 6, 16, and 19, and one son, age 12. Erin was a labor and delivery nurse and then returned to school to earn a Master\u2019s in Clinical Psychology. Although Erin thought she had sent her last child off to kindergarten, she and her husband, Greg, were blessed with their youngest child through the gift of adoption. She works very part-time at Focus on the Family in the Marriage and Family Division, while attempting to balance life at home with four kids. She has co-authored three books, her favorite being, Grown-Up Girlfriends\u2014Real Friends in the Real World<\/em>. You can reach Erin at\u00a0www.smalleymarriage.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0erin.smalley@fotf.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When was a time someone called something out in you? What did it change?<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever thought about the people who have spoken into your life? People who became your impetus in becoming who you are today. I have had several people who have spoken into my life over the years causing me to pursue things I\u2019ve never thought I had in me. When I married my husband, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":12190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,117],"tags":[166,32,33,164],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","category-wellness","tag-erin","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-self"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}