tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post1567808116960747091..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: Pondering the Gift of VocationAdorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-7783147275680846042009-03-02T20:23:00.000-06:002009-03-02T20:23:00.000-06:00Mark ~ Thank you. Please let me know how things ar...Mark ~ Thank you. Please let me know how things are going at your end! I'm very excited to see what happens. :-) <BR/><BR/>LarryD ~ That is the kicker, isn't it? I, too, struggle with that. Over time I keep thinking about what God wants for me, so that I can live up to it. I know about the loving God part, but it's hard to remember we don't do it ourselves.Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-36909716934889604172009-03-02T19:59:00.000-06:002009-03-02T19:59:00.000-06:00Thoughtful post, Adoro - as always.My vocation was...Thoughtful post, Adoro - as always.<BR/><BR/>My vocation was to be a husband and father - so for me, the discernment process occurred a long time ago. However, every day, I still make the choice to continue living my vocation - and doing so is joyful and liberating.<BR/><BR/>There are also "secondary" vocations - the way in which one serves the Church, for instance. I remember a conversation I had with my spiritual director, and I told him how I had an epiphany on the subject of "secondary" vocations. I said I had been focusing on what I wanted to do for God; after prayer (esp. in front of the Blessed Sacrament), the Lord revealed to me that it was more important for me to focus on what <B>God </B> wanted me to do for Him. It was a subtle difference, and that has always stuck with me.Larry Denningerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06015803653090711740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-9629694588608461532009-03-02T09:25:00.000-06:002009-03-02T09:25:00.000-06:00Adoro - as someone who is going through the discer...Adoro - as someone who is going through the discernment process at the moment (visiting Benedictine monasteries), I always find your posts on the subject of vocation helpful and thought-provoking. Thanks for your discussion of these issues, and I look forward to reading more from you in the coming weeks and months.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285355080459130149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-22529585832270256292009-03-01T20:55:00.000-06:002009-03-01T20:55:00.000-06:00LM ~ It makes PERFECT sense, especially from your ...LM ~ It makes PERFECT sense, especially from your position! :-D<BR/><BR/>Sr. Mary ~ I imagine that must be an amazing consolation in dark times.Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-85188972891057114422009-03-01T20:48:00.000-06:002009-03-01T20:48:00.000-06:00There is no greater gift, in my mind, than to be o...There is no greater gift, in my mind, than to be offered a spousal relationship with Jesus. That brings a smile to my face in the darkest of times. Each of the vows has their freedoms... their gifts. To look on them as renunciations is seeing the 10% empty, rather than the 90% full.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1314689328666392982009-03-01T20:12:00.000-06:002009-03-01T20:12:00.000-06:00'Freedom' or at least the perception of freedom wa...'Freedom' or at least the perception of freedom was one of the most difficult things for me to deal with. <BR/><BR/>It took me quite awhile to understand that the 'freedom' I was referring to all that time was actually a binding to the earthly treasure of 'time'. <BR/><BR/>I have actually come to find - and hopefully more so once I enter in 12 days - that freedom is actually a gift from God...not bound by time, but actually bound by the fact that I choose God ... I freely choose obedience to God. <BR/><BR/>Does that make sense?Lillian Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11649542879780055108noreply@blogger.com