Day 1: Introductions

I have been really feeling called to share my vocational discernment with my friends/family, and maybe even one day with others if it would be helpful to them. Right now I would like to keep it limited to those I have invited to read it because of the fears and insecurities I may still have, but hopefully the Lord will dispel those and grant me to conviction to share with anyone and everyone who wants to read my story.

The reason I am going to share this story and any future revelations on this topic is because the world needs to know how awesome God is, and I can't really contain it to myself. He has taken me on a whirlwind roller-coaster, and part of me needs to just process everything that He has been doing. I also hope that I can one day help other young women who may be discerning religious life, and hope that they can benefit from my experiences and insights. So please, if you have someone in mind, I'd be glad to add them to the reading list. Really, everyone has a vocation, so this blog is for all of us who are trying to figure out their place in this world. I just happen to be writing from the perspective of discerning religious life. Another reason: prayer. I need a lot of it. Please keep me in your prayers as I undergo this process and know that I will be praying for you as well.

But for now, I'll give you a little spoiler to where I am currently in my discernment, and then tomorrow I will start telling the story. Don't worry, there is not a huge ending yet, but that is part of what this blog is for: to document the journey. So today, I feel less afraid, more convicted, but still uncertain. I know the Lord is pursuing my heart and drawing me towards religious life, but as always, I have my doubts and my fears. Fears that I am making it all up, that I am interpreting things wrong, but this is when my faith and trust are tested, so I am holding fast to the truths that I know and continuing to wait on Him.

"Yet there too you shall seek the LORD, your God; and you shall indeed find him when you search after him with your whole heart and your whole soul." Deuteronomy 4:29 

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