Choices: we make them all the time. Some are not all that important like what to wear or what to eat for lunch. But others seem larger than life; like your major, career path or what to do after graduation. On the senior retreat this weekend, myself and other seniors focused on those big choices. While not everyone will be leaving Scranton this spring, we all need to make choices like these eventually.
Over and over we heard the message that there is no set plan for our lives. God did not make up a clear path for us that we have to get exactly right or we will be miserable human beings for the rest of our lives. Instead he gives us the power to choose what we desire and see fit at the time.
All choices will bring us growth as well as ups and downs; the most important part is to stay close to God regardless of the choice. He will give guidance and peace to make the best choice you can at that time. I have found this guidance in the practice of discernment. (Jesuits love it!) Paying attention to one’s thought and feelings day after day can be God showing us the desires of our heart- if we pay attention.
Throughout Lent and whenever a decision comes up, I challenge you to do a few things. Search your life, your heart, your mind for the ways God may be leading you. Know that while God knows it all there is no set plan, so value your choices instead of fearing them and I’ll try to remember to do the same.
-Love and Lenten Blessings,
Lauren G. Class of 2013
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