Discernment: To what is God calling me? That is a question
each of us needs to ask ourselves on a regular basis. We have been created to become our best
selves, to rely upon God as an infant or a young child relies upon its
parents/surrogate parents but to also to separate from such to develop a healthy
dependency upon oneself and finally to become interdependent, recognizing our
need for help, the importance of teamwork, of collaborating with others, of
empowering others, of building upon the accomplishments of others. The process of becoming our best selves and
growing in maturity involves this climbing the ladder from the utter dependence
of childhood and the developing independence as adolescence and young adults to embracing the challenges of interdependence
of mature adulthood. This growth
involves discerning what is asked of us as independent, separate human beings
functioning from a state of individual competence to working maturely in
unison, in collaboration, in reliance upon my own skills coupled with the skills
of others, that is, working interdependently and in communion with others as modeled
by the Trinity.
As the author of
Ecclesiastes might say “there is a time for dependence, independence and
interdependence.” How well do I discern
those times?
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