Reflection 13: gaze, consider, contemplate, imitate ... discern [video]
Who or what in my life has wisdom to share?
Discerning from both sides of the river bank
Advent in action: are you recognizing division in your life?
Celebrating the work of making room
Advent in action: Are you willing to make room for Jesus and the world in your life?
Sister Beth: "Pay attention to your dreams and desires."
"I love companioning people as they live into the fullness of God's invitation for their life."
Discerning action, new adventure in Lent and religious life
What adventure God is offering for you to consider?
Discernment and Advent: is your heart ready for the celebration?
Hope is there like a long, invisible chain, linking the moments until the celebration can begin.
Mary, Clare, a novice and an associate: discerning pathways to God
Where do these pioneers, blazing their own paths to religious life, inspire you to go?
Discerning wisdom in words
Are you carrying and comprehending security, delight and love through the doors to religious life?
Finding God at the wheel with Sister Laurice
"... each new shape of clay," shares Sister Amy about her time with Sister Laurice at the potter's wheel, "mirrored my own transformation as a religious sister."
Stepping into bright futures
Sister Amy celebrates "... all the ways that God has brought you to this milestone in your life."
Journey of Advent
How is your discernment part of the pilgrimage experience? Are you willing to enter the passage?
A transformative moment
In discernment, abundance is recognizing that God provides more than we could ever consume.
Sister Anita: the soul searching question
Calling through quiet to her innermost spirit and that of God, and listening "to find the courage and RESPOND" is, for Sister Anita, prayer.
Action vs. contemplation in discernment?
Active vs. contemplative discernment: visiting communities and meeting sisters equally essential as praying for wisdom and direction.
Intuition: an essential tool for home improvement and discernment
There may not be assembly instructions for completing the perfect household project or the future, discernment included.
Viewing relationships in a discernment eclipse
What happens when parents, friends experience their own moments of obscurity in your discernment?
Sister Katie: ordinary day, invitation to pray
Intimacy with God is not separate from day-to-day life.
Sister Amy: grateful for the ways I'm inspired to pray
The Holy Spirit is really good at getting my attention, inviting me to contemplation.
Where are we going?
Road of discernment: your gifts and talents may be precious fuel for propelling us into the future.
Unpredictability, overwhelming beauty coexist
Discernment: soaking up spring storms and the greening world around us.
Mantle of grief
Easter alleluias always come: God will not abandon you on your discernment journey.
Sharing courage to walk in darkness and light
Does love want others to lose in order for someone to win?
World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life
Will you be part of the next generation of consecrated life?
Advent light and joy: the vocation that may shine from deep inside you
The searing questions we hear on the lips of Jesus are held in tension with this sense of Advent joy.
The hope and conversion in Christmas
The clear invitation of the Advent season: amidst the work make way for hope in our hearts, hope in discernment.
Awake and ready in discernment?
Discernment: How you wait is just as important as the waiting.
Documenting discernment
Journaling by hand or tweeting by phone: are you documenting your discernment?
St. Clare of Assisi: model, mentor, friend
What if, like St. Clare, you lived your life steeped in prayer?
Blisters, discipline, perseverance and joy
Olympics and religious discernment: to win not a gold medal but a relationship with God, you don't have to be a skilled athlete of prayer.
Stop. Look up.
Allow beauty to seep into your soul ... reflect on things bigger than ourselves.
The chronos and kairos of our lives
How does your calendar tell the story of chronos and kairos in your life?
Threshold moments
How are you dealing with the storms of life that can be part of discernment?
Let's begin with your story ... and a step
Your journey to religious life starts with your story... and a step.