Let us unite in prayer this Memorial Day.

Who or what in my life has wisdom to share?

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

Advent in action: Are you willing to make room for Jesus and the world in your life?

"I love companioning people as they live into the fullness of God's invitation for their life."

What adventure God is offering for you to consider?

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

Where do these pioneers, blazing their own paths to religious life, inspire you to go?

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."

Sister Amy celebrates "... all the ways that God has brought you to this milestone in your life."

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

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

In discernment, abundance is recognizing that God provides more than we could ever consume.

Calling through quiet to her innermost spirit and that of God, and listening "to find the courage and RESPOND" is, for Sister Anita, prayer. 

Active vs. contemplative discernment: visiting communities and meeting sisters equally essential as praying for wisdom and direction.

There may not be assembly instructions for completing the perfect household project or the future, discernment included.

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

Intimacy with God is not separate from day-to-day life.

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

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.

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

Will you be part of the next generation of consecrated life?

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.

Journaling by hand or tweeting by phone: are you documenting your discernment?

Are you building bridges in discernment?

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.

Allow beauty to seep into your soul ... reflect on things bigger than ourselves.

How does your calendar tell the story of chronos and kairos in your life?

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

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

Relying on the now moment to find mystery in the fog.