How do you walk with thirst in your own desert experience?

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Advent in action: are you recognizing division in your life?

"I had several strong influences to inspire me."

"No matter where discernment takes you, carry today's Gospel acclamation as you journey forth ..."

‘My delight has been being spirit led to an ever-deepening relationship with God.’

How could religious life call you to be a person of love in the world?

"You can't say yes to religious life until you can say no to it. It must be a free choice."

Let's celebrate all the gifts in our hearts ... including discernment of religious life.

Hope is there like a long, invisible chain, linking the moments until the celebration can begin.

How has God been with you ... every step of the way?

What are you thankful for today?

Ask any Catholic sister: a "yes" to religious life can open more doors than ever imagined.

Are you carrying and comprehending security, delight and love through the doors to religious life?

"... 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."

"In my heart," shares Sister Cormarie, "my vows were final the first time I spoke them."

Let us celebrate Jesus and the joyfulness of his resurrection. 

How can the invitation to discern help you develop your own heart of flesh?

Will we live with eyes wide open or avert our glance, ignoring our brothers and sisters in need?

Carry this gift, from your journey through Advent and discernment, always in your spirit.

Spiritual blisters: symbols of joy discovered in risking the journey.

Discipline and commitment in our hearts: not just in Lent but Advent and discernment too.

How is your discernment part of the pilgrimage experience? Are you willing to enter the passage?

Her "heart in the middle of my being" is vital to Sister Ronalda.

What would happen if we woke up and fostered peace and positivity instead of hate and greed?

Movement ... mindfulness ... self ... love ... presence: Sister Jean's Franciscan Way.

Sister Amy, in her own discernment, found that "Each community carried individual tones and music of life."

Discernment: imagining yourself in new climates, cultures an invitation from God. 

What happens when parents, friends experience their own moments of obscurity in your discernment?

"Good Morning Jesus" -- my soul's connection with the presence of God.

Your obituary: will it speak to your courage, service, voice, gifts?

The Holy Spirit is really good at getting my attention, inviting me to contemplation.

As each bell chimed, my vision of the world widened; I've prayed for people around the globe.

Witness what it means to walk the Gospel-centered journey of life as a religious sister.

Road of discernment: your gifts and talents may be precious fuel for propelling us into the future.

Discernment: soaking up spring storms and the greening world around us.

Easter alleluias always come: God will not abandon you on your discernment journey.

Traveling through your own Egypt experience for the cool waters of friendship, understanding and companionship in discernment.

On the Lenten road of kindness and spiritual growth, Esther is a model for discerners.

Love: it's also what discernment—and religious life—are all about.

Does love want others to lose in order for someone to win?

What if your dream is the one the world needs now?

Is it snowing in your world of discernment?

The searing questions we hear on the lips of Jesus are held in tension with this sense of Advent joy.

The clear invitation of the Advent season: amidst the work make way for hope in our hearts, hope in discernment.

Discernment: How you wait is just as important as the waiting.

God recognizes and welcomes us, costumed or not.

Running from silence: when we plug in are we silencing God?

What if, like St. Clare, you lived your life steeped in prayer?

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.

Crossing 800 and 138-year-old thresholds to love, acceptance and forgiveness.

Discerning in a hurting world: when our faith asks us, in difficult times, to look again.

Would your life be different if Jesus and your relationship and your beliefs were unwrapped?

How are you dealing with the storms of life that can be part of discernment?

Ask yourself: are you seeing discernment from new heights? A different point of view?

Your journey to religious life starts with your story... and a step.