Discovering your calling is not

an epiphany but a series of

intentional decisions. It looks

less like a giant leap and more

like building a bridge.

The day Myles Carlson was dropped off at a French-

speaking school in the middle of East Africa was one of the
hardest days in his mom’s life. “I felt like I was tossing him
into the sea without a life jacket,” Kristy Carlson recalled.
“Asking him to rise to the challenge of life in a new

language just felt like too much to ask of a five-year-old!”^1
But Myles wasn’t the only one who had to adjust to a new
normal.
A few years before that day, Ben and Kristy Carlson
knew they needed a change. The result was a “journey of
discovery,” as they called it, into who they were as
individuals. For Kristy that meant pursuing photography,
and for Ben it meant growing coffee. When they decided to
go for it, moving from South Africa where they did