Gorilla suits suit

Today on the radio I heard about one of those incidents in life that gives me a smile, caused me to reflect on how I did something similar once and now, a few years on - I would still do it given the chance, or maybe I still do if only in a different form.

The story concerned a 25 year old man in Belgium arrested for jumping out in front of bushwalkers and then running off, whilst wearing a gorilla suit. Locals reported gorilla sightings to police for several weeks. A crack team of trackers equipped with dogs and tranquiliser guns was formed to locate and remove the wild threat. The gorilla was eventually confronted
without the aid of the tranquiliser guns and released after relinquishing his suit. His excuse - he thought that peoples' lives were too boring and he wanted to give them some excitement!

I remember doing a similar thing at a Youth Group costume night. I had my parents drop me off at the Church early, it was mid winter and quite dark in the car park by 7 pm. Wearing my gorilla suit, I was able to hide in the bushes along the pathway and have some "good, clean, Christian fun" with the nerves of quite a few of my peers. Would I do it again? - in an
instant. Would I do it now? - you bet. Do I do it know? - I guess I do, wearing the suit of conformity every day, filling a role that I feel is no longer me (Wemmick!). But is the person inside the suit supposed to be frightened by it? And what forms the mirror that shows the suit to the wearer?

Maybe the suit is me, and I don't like the me it represents! Maybe I was called to this reality, but now the season is past and another is being prepared for me.

Andrew has Given Up On Calling. Does that show a satisfaction with where he is, therefore happy not to pursue another journey or destination (for now)? If I give up on "finding"/hearing" my calling does that mean that I can remain content here? God doesn't call us to contentment. He would like us to feel contentment in some spheres of our existence, but what distinguishes between contentment and complacency?

I don't think I can be content here, as a destination. Although I can find purpose here in two aspects:

1. It is where God has put me and I should remain, seeking contentment in His purpose until shown otherwise.

2. Acceptance of this reality is a part of the journey to my next destination (I didn't write this line from an eternal perspective, but it seems to have more depth in that regard).

Today's reality, wearing today's suit, is a stepping stone, a preparatory phase. Waiting for the next visit to the tailor of life for another fitting session. Of what cloth and cut? - my preference, but the tailor does the sewing.