Be Careful What You Pray For....

[lookingforfaith]

The other night I was praying in my room. I was kind of upset and I began pleading with God to grant me some sort of sign of what He wants me to do. That I will follow wherever He wills me to go, but I just gotta know what it is He is asking me to do. Well today at work, I was organizing some shelves and I hear "Maybe this nice young lady can help us." I look over and see two fully habited sisters by my side. I helped them get the things they needed and they left. I just rolled my eyes and said "Gotcha." [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='lookingforfaith' date='10 August 2010 - 10:27 PM' timestamp='1281490043' post='2155549']
The other night I was praying in my room. I was kind of upset and I began pleading with God to grant me some sort of sign of what He wants me to do. That I will follow wherever He wills me to go, but I just gotta know what it is He is asking me to do. Well today at work, I was organizing some shelves and I hear "Maybe this nice young lady can help us." I look over and see two fully habited sisters by my side. I helped them get the things they needed and they left. I just rolled my eyes and said "Gotcha." [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Oh how God works!! I've had my share of those moments!!



Oooh, what Order, by the way?

[lookingforfaith]

I was too shy to ask them, but judging by their habits I would assume Benedictine.

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='lookingforfaith' date='10 August 2010 - 10:34 PM' timestamp='1281490454' post='2155552']
I was too shy to ask them, but judging by their habits I would assume Benedictine.
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Neat!

Well, all I can say is you better beware. God is tricksy sometimes and it looks like He's already working on you!

[lookingforfaith]

God is crafty. Good, but crafty.

[Tridenteen]

JMJ
That's funny...I was going o say "what order?" next. :-)

[Hilde]

Yeah, maybe they can,

[JTheresa]

[quote name='lookingforfaith' date='10 August 2010 - 09:27 PM' timestamp='1281490043' post='2155549']
The other night I was praying in my room. I was kind of upset and I began pleading with God to grant me some sort of sign of what He wants me to do. That I will follow wherever He wills me to go, but I just gotta know what it is He is asking me to do. Well today at work, I was organizing some shelves and I hear "Maybe this nice young lady can help us." I look over and see two fully habited sisters by my side. I helped them get the things they needed and they left. I just rolled my eyes and said "Gotcha." [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Gotta love God. He is rather tricksy. I remember praying once a while ago that God would tell me what to do. Shortly after, some lady at church asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I didnt know. She looks at me real serious and says, "You should be a nun. You would make a good nun. You should be a nun." I had never met her before in my life. I would see her at daily mass a couple times when I would go with my family in middle school. She was a really nice African-American lady and had a really thick accent. I don't even know her name.

But yeah, be careful what you pray for...

[vee]

Ooooh great stories! God is so wonderful.

[OnlySunshine]

[quote name='JTheresa' date='10 August 2010 - 11:02 PM' timestamp='1281495749' post='2155598']
Gotta love God. He is rather tricksy. I remember praying once a while ago that God would tell me what to do. Shortly after, some lady at church asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I didnt know. She looks at me real serious and says, "You should be a nun. You would make a good nun. You should be a nun." I had never met her before in my life. I would see her at daily mass a couple times when I would go with my family in middle school. She was a really nice African-American lady and had a really thick accent. I don't even know her name.

But yeah, be careful what you pray for...

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[Sr Marianne]

Mmmm. Take the hint.

[Divine Mercy 9999]

[quote name='lookingforfaith' date='10 August 2010 - 08:46 PM' timestamp='1281491199' post='2155557']
God is crafty. Good, but crafty.
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So is His mother... .I've had a few of those moments too...

[lookingforfaith]

I think that's where He gets it from...

[elizabeth09]

I have no idea what God wants me to do, but I will keep praying and I hope that I can do His Will for me.

[OnlySunshine]

[quote name='elizabeth09' date='11 August 2010 - 06:25 PM' timestamp='1281565509' post='2156138']
I have no idea what God wants me to do, but I will keep praying and I hope that I can do His Will for me.
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Are you still discerning religious life?

[LilyofSaintMaria]

[quote name='lookingforfaith' date='11 August 2010 - 04:58 PM' timestamp='1281556730' post='2155996']
I think that's where He gets it from...
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[CatherineM]

Nuns haunt me at times too.

[MissScripture]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='11 August 2010 - 08:40 PM' timestamp='1281573606' post='2156200']
Nuns haunt me at times too.
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Do you tell them that they didn't make it in time?

[CatherineM]

[quote name='MissScripture' date='11 August 2010 - 08:08 PM' timestamp='1281575331' post='2156224']
Do you tell them that they didn't make it in time?
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They had 43 years. The difference in time between when they told me no because I was too young and didn't have my parent's approval, and when they told me I was too old and set in my ways seemed like just a few days.

[loveletslive]

ha! i experienced something similar last summer except for i saw two habited Franciscans riding around in a carriage on Mackinac Island in Michigan. i couldn't believe it.