Put your shoes on!

All the voices were telling me; my wife, my Trustees, my friends, the circumstances; the provision - everything, yet all of them were external to me. I had not heard from the Lord in my heart. I heard all these voices without, but His was missing within. I could not agree to go without that deepest sense of calling.
So during that week I prayed daily for that sense of Divine calling. Each day passed and each day Hazel prodded me to apply for the fourth place. Was I being stubborn - what me? - or was the Lord checking on whose voice is most important?
That week I was to preach at the Aberdeen Chinese Christian Church. It is a real help if the sermon is submitted in full for interpretation to be prepared. I sensed that the message was to be around Moses at the Burning Bush - read it in Exodus 3 if you are not familiar with it - and I mentioned Moses going about his ordinary business and God breaking in; of God telling him to take off his shoes as a sign of the holiness of the encounter and that he was going nowhere. I therefore sent the script and thought nothing more about it.
Except that as I walked to an appointment that afternoon, I experienced a frisson of joy as I sensed that something I had done which was ordinary needed to be looked at. The ordinary thing was the preparation of that sermon.
The next morning I was sitting in the warm sun, drinking a great Americano, and asking the Lord about that frisson. He directed me to my own sermon. How bizarre. What had been prepared for others was now being "preached" directly to me. I read it through as though someone else was preaching it and came to the last couple of lines -which I had completely forgotten I had written - which hit me full-on, " Put your shoes on and GO!"
That was the word from heaven I was waiting for. My heart leapt with joy and tears flowed over my notebook. I knew beyond any shadow of a doubt, I HAD to go!
I immediately emailed the ministry team at Church and asked to be considered for the place.