my purpose in life

Last week, i met up with my friends from college, Bambi and Carla.  It was a blessed meeting as it was another opportunity for me to share my experience, my own discernment about my life’s purpose.  They asked me why I took theology, what made me decide, how was I sure about my decision.  I told them it was not a short process.  It took me practically my whole lifetime to decide and it’s been a continuing discernment even up to now.

I am grateful for having met with them because somehow I realized that my choice of taking this path can also serve as an inspiration to others like them.  I don’t mean that my path is the ideal or the best path one could take but I recognized that it could serve as a consolation to them, to arrest their fears of embarking on this road-less-traveled.  It is normal to worry about how they will get by in the future, how their family will take their decision, how to push forward.  And yet, I constantly remind them that God’s grace is enough to sustain them (and I am not exaggerating!)  But still I told them to continue to gather more data, continue to discern and if possible not decide immediately until they are more or less certain that they are at peace with whatever decision they would make.  The important thing is that when they decide, they should decide out of freedom, out of love.

When I got home that night, I felt a certain consolation and peace as well.  It’s a perfect gift, I thought to myself.  The gift of peace.  The gift of God’s loving fidelity.  That meeting served as a confirmation from God that my decision last year was a decision he approved of. I am where he wants me to be.  I am where I want to be.  I am in the point in my life that I know my will is aligned with God’s will.  And that I know is grace.

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