Discerning God's Presence in One's Life

Discerning God’s Presence in your life—God is present in each event of our lives with a message of His love, His mercy, His faithfulness, His compassion, His understanding and an invitation to believe in yourself, trust yourself, and find out who you truly are or who you are capable of being and becoming. Given that fact, I invite you to the following exercise:

 1.       List the key events of your life: those that are joyful and those that are painful, those that are pleasant or unpleasant to recall, those that were easy and those that were difficult.

2.       For which of these experiences are most grateful and why?

3.       Which of these events left you with lessons about yourself that you do not want to forget: about your strengths, your weaknesses, your capabilities, your potential. What did you learn about yourself?
4.       Which of those life experiences contributed most to your growth in becoming the best version of yourself?
5.       Given these events, to what is God calling you now in order to build on the past as well as learn from the past and anchor your future in faith in God?

 

Source:  Adapted from Pathways: A Vocation discernment Program, Sisters of the Company of Mary, Our Lady, 1990.