About Becoming a Brother
“A vocation appears to have something to do with listening. Listening to my life, those in it, listening to God also. But definitely listening. And what do we hear? Sometimes it seems awfully quiet out there, and on other occasions we find ourselves moved deeply by an encounter with another person, something we have read, a moment of prayer. Discerning a vocation means that you listen to what life is telling you rather than just telling life how you will live it. And sometimes you will find that what you hear when you listen well is not what you want to hear at all. But that is what discerning God’s will is about in the first place. The voice that speaks to your heart in a vocation invites you to become the person God meant you to be.”
- Sean Salmon, FMS |
Any vocation is a serious, ongoing dialogue between your own inner voice and God’s outer voice.
- Where do you seem to be led?
- What kinds of things keep cropping up in your head when you think about your future?
- Under what circumstances do you find yourself both comfortable and challenged?
- Who are the people that you look up to as examples?
- How can you become the person that you believe God wants you to be?
- All of these questions, and more, are part of the nurturing of a vocation.
Like any relationship, this dialogue is something that never really stops or settles down. It’s a living, moving thing that grows more certain and more settled as time passes, but it always keeps pulling you in further. It’s a great adventure, if you let it.
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