Finding Your "Calling" After Deconstruction?

A gift for you -- the Called For Adventure Workbook.

A Gift for Paid Subscribers: The Called For Adventure Workbook

Over the last year, many of us have been exploring questions about faith, identity, purpose, and what it means to build a life that is actually our own.

That brings me to a word some of us may have left behind:

Calling.

I know that word can carry baggage. For many of us, it was tied to ministry, certainty, divine plans, or the pressure to discover “God’s will” for our lives.

To be honest, I’ve wanted to find a better word for it myself.

But I haven’t been able to.

These days, I think of calling less as a religious concept and more as a human one. I think all of us are living inside a life story—on our own journey. All of us feel pulled toward some things and away from others. All of us have moments when life feels aligned and moments when it feels like we’re living someone else’s script.

Calling, for me, is simply the process of paying attention to those moments of personal alignment.

A few years ago, I found myself successful on paper but increasingly disconnected from myself. Through a series of reflection exercises, journaling prompts, and vision work, I began to see a clearer picture of who I was, what mattered most to me, and where I wanted my life to go next.

This workbook is the result.

Called For Adventure: 12 Days to Know Your Calling is a guided journey designed to help you reconnect with your story, clarify your vision, and take meaningful action toward the life you want to live.

Over 12 days, you’ll explore:

• The experiences that shaped you
• The themes that have followed you throughout your life
• The practices that help you feel most alive
• The future you actually want to create
• The concrete steps that can move you toward it

The first seven days focus on looking backward—understanding your story and the clues hidden within it. The final five days focus on looking forward—creating a vision for your future and turning that vision into action.

Technically, this workbook was created for my Called For Adventure Substack and is one of the benefits available to paid subscribers there. (If you didn’t know, I have two different Substacks. CFA was the first one. This is the second one.)

But I know some of you here would find it helpful, and I wanted to offer it as a thank-you for supporting this work. So if you’re a paid subscriber at any level to Deconstructed Pastor, the workbook is yours as well.

I genuinely believe this is some of the most practical and transformative work I’ve ever created.

Thank you for being part of this community.

The workbook is available below as a free PDF download for all paid subscribers.

Or, if you aren’t yet a paid subscriber here, you can adjust your subscription below to access it.