No Vocation?

[VeniteAdoremus]

[quote name='rosamundi' post='1897705' date='Jun 21 2009, 10:56 PM']Excuse me? [i]Blisters?!?[/i] I'll have you know I stocked my first aid kit last week, and blister plasters were on special offer. [/quote]

I won't show you the pictures from Chartres

[WisdomSeeker]

[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1897659' date='Jun 21 2009, 09:14 PM']You are, by the way, still very welcome to get covered in blisters between Ely and Walsingham with us, although I most certainly understand if you'd rather not.[/quote]

Oooh blisters! I have one at the moment where I have been wearing my flip flops too much
I have decided to leave things as they are at the moment, I am staying in contact with the religious orders I'm already in communication with and apart from that I am just going to take each day as it comes and see what happens

Edited June 22, 2009 by WisdomSeeker

[WisdomSeeker]

[size=3]I thought that I would let you know that I am feeling a bit better today (apart from the fact I now have a rotten cold ) I am hoping to be able to get (sorry if that is the wrong word) a SD soon as I don't have one at present.

Thank you for all your prayers and wise words of advice [/size]

[WisdomSeeker]

[size=3]I would like to say thank you to everyone for their help and words of advice. After taking some more time out to think about things I have decided to put everything to one side at the moment and concentrate on getting myself sorted out. Once that is done then if it is meant to be I will start discerning again.

Again thank you all so much for all your help and patience [/size]

[the lords sheep]

I still strongly recommend that you find a spiritual director. Having someone to advise you and pray for and with you can greatly help in the "sorting out" process. My SD has the uncanny ability to remind me that sometimes I'm making things more complicated than I ought.
Spiritual direction is not just for discernment- it's for learning to live the Christian life in the midst of all the messes that we make in our own lives...
God bless you! And keep visiting us!!!

In Christ,
Lauren

[WisdomSeeker]

Oh don't worry I'm not going anywhere

[WisdomSeeker]

Thank you all for your help and support, I am finally coming out of the tunnel into the light. I know that the path will at times be rocky and the journey will sometimes be hard, but with the help of the saints and with much prayer I know that if it is Gods will I will persevere.

Edited June 30, 2009 by WisdomSeeker

[VeniteAdoremus]

Yay.

[the lords sheep]

[quote name='WisdomSeeker' post='1906138' date='Jun 30 2009, 02:54 PM']Thank you all for your help and support, I am finally coming out of the tunnel into the light. I know that the path will at times be rocky and the journey will sometimes be hard, but with the help of the saints and with much prayer I know that if it is Gods will I will persevere.[/quote]


Thanks be to God! Hang in there!

[Luigi]

[quote name='WisdomSeeker' post='1906138' date='Jun 30 2009, 08:54 AM']Thank you all for your help and support, I am finally coming out of the tunnel into the light. I know that the path will at times be rocky and the journey will sometimes be hard, but with the help of the saints and with much prayer I know that if it is Gods will I will persevere.[/quote]

Alleluia! Persevere, and trust in God's providence.

[HisChild]

I read this thread with much interest. When I left the PCPA in 2006, I was distraught. I'd sold my house, I'd given away all my furniture and belongings... and then after illness had to leave. I felt I had been abandoned by God. Since I'd been in religious life before, with illness there as well a decade earlier, I'd felt like screaming. And did, as a matter of fact.

Then I became petulant. I thought, all right, if I'm not called to be a religious, by golly I'm going to return to the world in style. I bought an expensive car, nice furniture and immersed myself, sometimes not even going to Mass, because after all, if He didn't want me in religious life after all I'd done, perhaps He didn't even want me in His church.

It took me a long time to realize that He wasn't going to stop pursuing me, for whatever will He has for me. I'm allowing myself simply to rest in Him and to allow my vocation, whether it be in the world or not, as a married woman or not, to flourish.

With age comes, hopefully, a little maturity and patience, knowing that God's time is not my time. When I feel like it's taking 'forever' to know what He wants, I just pray, reminding myself that I am exactly where He wants me to be and when it's time for whatever that next step is, whether it be marriage or single or vowed He'll place me in that path. Patience for me truly is a virtue.

No, I'm not looking into religious communities actively. Phooey, where I now live, there aren't any (good) spiritual directors, so I'm not even on that path. I'm just basking in the moment and know when it's time, as He knows my circumstances, He'll make Himself known with the nudges He's famous for in my life.

Keep up with the good fight, dear sister in Christ. He does love you, has a plan for you and will reveal Himself to you when you're meant to know. Know that, in the words of Hannah Hurnard's Good Shepherd from the book Hinds' Feet on High Places: <i>No one, not even your own shrinking heart, can pluck you out of my hand.</i> Amen.

[WisdomSeeker]

[quote name='HisChild' post='1917316' date='Jul 11 2009, 07:52 PM']I read this thread with much interest. When I left the PCPA in 2006, I was distraught. I'd sold my house, I'd given away all my furniture and belongings... and then after illness had to leave. I felt I had been abandoned by God. Since I'd been in religious life before, with illness there as well a decade earlier, I'd felt like screaming. And did, as a matter of fact.

Then I became petulant. I thought, all right, if I'm not called to be a religious, by golly I'm going to return to the world in style. I bought an expensive car, nice furniture and immersed myself, sometimes not even going to Mass, because after all, if He didn't want me in religious life after all I'd done, perhaps He didn't even want me in His church.

It took me a long time to realize that He wasn't going to stop pursuing me, for whatever will He has for me. I'm allowing myself simply to rest in Him and to allow my vocation, whether it be in the world or not, as a married woman or not, to flourish.

With age comes, hopefully, a little maturity and patience, knowing that God's time is not my time. When I feel like it's taking 'forever' to know what He wants, I just pray, reminding myself that I am exactly where He wants me to be and when it's time for whatever that next step is, whether it be marriage or single or vowed He'll place me in that path. Patience for me truly is a virtue.

No, I'm not looking into religious communities actively. Phooey, where I now live, there aren't any (good) spiritual directors, so I'm not even on that path. I'm just basking in the moment and know when it's time, as He knows my circumstances, He'll make Himself known with the nudges He's famous for in my life.

Keep up with the good fight, dear sister in Christ. He does love you, has a plan for you and will reveal Himself to you when you're meant to know. Know that, in the words of Hannah Hurnard's Good Shepherd from the book Hinds' Feet on High Places: <i>No one, not even your own shrinking heart, can pluck you out of my hand.</i> Amen.[/quote]


Thank you I am just taking it one day at a time and seeing where my path leads me.