Samuel heard his name in the night and thought it was the old priest calling. God’s voice can sound ordinary at first.

In the old story a boy hears his name three times in the dark and assumes it is the man asleep down the hall. Nothing about it announced itself. Whatever you make of it, the pattern is familiar: what turns out to matter arrives wearing the most ordinary available explanation. Direction rarely shows up labelled as direction, which is why it is easy to roll over and go back to sleep.

Pay attention to the small nudge you keep dismissing as too plain to matter. Write it down this week instead of deciding about it. Real things tend to come back, and a note lets you notice the second time.