Meet The Founder

I’m still finding mine too.

The Calling Journal wasn’t built by someone who already had it figured out. It was built by someone in the middle of looking — same as you.

For a long time, I knew something was true before I could explain it: I have a calling. Not a job title. Not a five-year plan. A calling — something God shaped me for specifically, that I haven’t fully stepped into yet.

That feeling doesn’t go away. It sits underneath the regular stuff — work, bills, the daily grind — and it doesn’t get louder, it just stays present. Always there. Asking the same question over and over: what is it, exactly, that I’m here to do?

I didn’t write The Calling Journal because I’d already answered that question. I wrote it because I haven’t — not completely — and because I noticed I wasn’t the only one carrying it.

The pattern I kept seeing

The more I talked to people — friends, family, people at church, people just living their lives — the more I noticed the same thing showing up, over and over, in almost everyone.

They believed God had a plan for their life. They just had no idea what it was.

Not because they didn’t have faith. They did. They believed it the way you believe something true at the foundation — without question. But belief in a plan and clarity about that plan are two completely different things, and almost nobody I talked to had bridged that gap.

Sunday morning, the plan feels real. Monday morning, it’s foggy again. People knew that God had a purpose for them. They just didn’t have a way to actually find out what it was — or a daily practice that moved them any closer to it.

That gap is the whole reason this journal exists.

Why a journal, and why these four stages

I needed something I could use myself — not a course to sit through, not a sermon to listen to once and forget. Something daily. Something that met me in the actual texture of my life, where the search for purpose isn’t a single epiphany, it’s a slow walk with seasons.

I went looking in Scripture for people whose calling didn’t arrive all at once either — and found the same pattern again and again. Moses at the burning bush didn’t get a five-year plan. He got a moment he couldn’t ignore, and not much else. The wilderness years weren’t a detour from his purpose — they were where it was actually formed. Nehemiah didn’t rebuild the wall by knowing the whole plan in advance — he built it one section at a time, in the middle of real opposition. And Moses, eventually, was sent back — not to a different life, but to the same one, carrying something new.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord. — Jeremiah 29:11

That became the four stages of The Calling Journal: Awakening, The Desert, The Build, and The Return. Not a formula. A map for a journey that’s already biblical, already true, and already happening inside the people who pick this up.

What this journal actually is

It’s not a devotional you read and set down. It’s a daily practice — Scripture, a short truth to sit with, a real reflection prompt, one concrete step, and a moment of gratitude. Small enough to do every day. Honest enough to mean something.

I didn’t build this from the other side of having it all figured out. I built it from inside the search — because I needed it, and because I kept meeting people who needed it too, and nothing on the shelf was doing what this does.

If you’ve ever felt the gap between what you believe and how you’re actually living — between Sunday and Monday — this was built for exactly that. For you, and honestly, for me too.

— Jay, Founder, Sunday Roots