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

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

"... 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."

Tending to discernment requires prayer, guidance, openness ... risking the goodness when found.

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

When desire to be of service is present, are we ready to love like Christ?

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

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

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

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

Walking together — through life changers like discernment — takes courage and conviction but also generates power to shape the future.

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 circle of discernment: even wider when you consider that the whole Catholic church is praying for you.

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

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

By choosing to distract ourselves from listening—particularly when we are called to rise to the potential already within us—we can hide from God.

Are you ready to allow God--not a stagnant statue of your own creation--to be the form you follow?

When we say "Yes" to vocation we—like Mary—must walk the road, learning as we go, trusting God is always there.

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?

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

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.

Leaving your illusions at the door: who you are and why God calls you to discern religious life.

God recognizes and welcomes us, costumed or not.

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

Are you building bridges in discernment?

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.

Are you nurturing the coals and fanning the flames of discernment?

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

The jubilee of your life: is discernment leading you to enjoy it rather than endure it?

Words, vows, renewing commitment: what does your life call you to today?

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

Traveling through the waters 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.