Understanding

Discernment requires both theological and philosophical truth and understanding to find the vocation path of humility, loyalty, obedience, and truth. This endeavor has no clearcut timeline, no average time to completion. It is a time of civility and charity; it is the business of hope. Each discernment is acknowledged and encouraged by God. The practice of each vocation search is varied. There is not just one way to discern how to serve the Lord, how to decide upon a heaven bound path. The business of faith is the business of vocation, the journey toward God, the journey toward salvation. Each search for vocation is a search for honor, charity, mercy leading to a higher ground of service and adoration of God. Discernment is a period when we downplay and forget wanting silver and gold. Discernment asks for truth, discernment requires a strong love, unconditional, universal. Here is the time to develop the confidence to believe in God, to develop the courage to declare and affirm the belief, to develop the ability to bring the belief alive with personal sacrifice. Discernment can be a course, winding and crooked, dark and shadowy; it is a mixture of both truth and untruth, dream and nightmare. All that is within the heart, mind, and soul will be represented during discernment. Allow love and honor to govern your heart, mind, and soul. Remember to be humble. This is a time for theological inquiry and reason. This is a time to reflect upon walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. This is a time of holiness and grace. Discernment is the search for faith signatures in our lives; vocation is how we want to share, how we allow ourselves share our faith.