Learning to Discern the Will of God

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How do we discern God’s will for our lives? Whether it’s contemplating a big move, asking someone on a date, or accepting a job offer, we all face moments in life when desire to know the will of God for our lives. Dr. Sri takes us through a foundational moment in his life when he had to make an important choice and offers us three key insights on how to discern the will God in our lives.

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Discernment often involves wrestling with God, learning to surrender, and discovering our own desires, attachments, and fears.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Cree and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:14.4	How do you go about discerning God's will?
0:17.0	How do you know God's will of your life for a job or for a move or for a relationship
0:21.7	you're in or maybe you're thinking about your kids and educational choices, activities
0:26.1	who they socialize with or maybe just an opportunity comes up in your life and you're
0:30.3	wondering, should I take it?
0:32.0	What should I do?
0:33.0	Should I do this?
0:34.7	How we go about discerning life's choices reveals a lot about who we are in our relationship
0:41.2	with God.
0:42.8	And I'm going to do something different today.
0:44.9	You see, it's my birthday coming up here this week and I've been just looking back
0:48.8	over the last year and over my life and just so thankful for the many people who have
0:53.7	helped shape my life, whether it's my parents or friends, priests, many different people,
0:59.7	all throughout the years that have impacted my life.
1:02.3	But I think about some of those big moments in my life and I was talking about this with
1:07.2	my wife the other day and best said, you should do a podcast on this.
1:11.1	You should think about those discernment points that you had in your life and so that's
1:14.9	what I'm going to do with you.
1:15.9	I'm going to take you back to a certain moment and I have many, maybe I'll make a tradition
1:20.7	of this and do this each year.
1:22.2	But I'm going to take you back to a moment that was quite foundational in my life and
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