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Leslie Verner

Leslie Verner is a goer learning how to stay. She traveled widely and spent five years in China before returning to the U.S. to marry a theatre actor. Leslie writes regularly about faith, justice, family and cross-cultural issues at www.scrapingraisins.com and elsewhere on the web. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

The Danger of Following Your “Calling”

I am not called to missions, marriage, motherhood, writing or teaching. I am called, first and foremost, to intimacy with Jesus Christ. That is my call.