tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17937506.post2071564407892975256..comments2023-10-24T08:51:39.726-05:00Comments on In Lay Terms: Getting In a CallingRosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308078791932985528noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17937506.post-30373699153926934872008-06-26T06:53:00.000-05:002008-06-26T06:53:00.000-05:00In his Rules for Discernment of Spirits, Ignatius ...In his <I>Rules for Discernment of Spirits</I>, Ignatius of Loyola gives the example of a person having an intense spiritual experience that he (for Ignatius, it would have only been a male) interprets as a call to ordination. The experience itself, the saint points out, may well have been of God. The interpretation could well be human and mistaken.<BR/><BR/>If I follow your thought here, there is a call implicit in every such deep encounter with God. There is always an element of "Whom shall I send?" Yet the way in which we are sent may not be along the path we think. It may be along a path we cannot yet imagine.<BR/><BR/>Obstacles along the way are many, and sometimes we think they put us in an either-or situation. I used to tell the seminarians I worked with who came to an apparent fork in the road, that sometimes we don't have to take either fork. We can always step off the path and create a new one.<BR/><BR/>There are more ways to God -- more ways from God to us -- than we or any human authorities think. There are more ways to serve than have been discovered so far.Michael Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00942287172727040371noreply@blogger.com