Called Blog
Thoughts & Musings on Calling
It was about a year ago that I heard from my friend, Dom; he was holding a copy of Called, the first copy I had ever seen. I made my way to Portland that weekend to speak on C. S. Lewis to a room full of folks at Dom's church. It was then that I saw my words in print for the first time.
It's tough to put into words how much that moment meant. That was one year ago this month.
It was about a year ago that Jen and I were getting ready to sit down for dinner at our good friends' Todd & Emily's home in North Carolina when I saw the first artwork for my book cover. It was a surreal moment.
I'll be honest, before seeing the first cover designs, I was afraid of how it might turn out.
What if I don't like it? I remember thinking. What if it looks nothing like what my book is actually about and I have to go back and ask them to change it? I don't want to be that guy.
Fortunately, I was thrilled with how the artwork turned out.
Well, friends, the big day is finally here.
I've read what some of my favorite authors do on the day of their book's release. Donald Miller confesses to checking his book's Amazon ranking every seven minutes to see how it's doing. Anne Lamott talks about roaming her house anxiously waiting for friends to call and tell her what a remarkable book she's crafted.
For me, today feels like my birthday, Christmas morning, and the most nerve-wracking senior prom all wrapped up in one.
Called: My Journey to C. S. Lewis's House and Back Again will be out in less than a month. It's been a long journey, but the big day is nearly here.
Set in historic Oxford, England and the former home of C. S. Lewis, Called is a memoir on calling. It's an honest account of the exciting peaks and difficult valleys of mine and my wife's journey of leaving home, career, and community to pursue a calling.
It's also a wrestling with the question of what it even means to be called.
Here are three things to know about the book.
Several years ago Donald Miller (one of my favorite writers) wrote a book called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Just before it was released I received a note inviting me to download a special sneak-peak at the book.
I remember thinking how cool it was to read part of the book before it was out. I also remember thinking that if I ever had my own book published, I'd want to do the same thing.
