When the Best Decision is to “Stay the Course”
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
“Is God calling me somewhere else?”
Sometimes in our discernment—especially over major life choices, like our vocations—we start second guessing our decisions. Sometimes, we make hasty decisions because we thought we “messed up” our discernment. But most of the time… the best decision is to “stay the course”.
As the scriptures says, “Let your yes be yes and your no be no.”
Today Fr. Mike continues his series on vocational discernment and offers some helpful guidance on how and when to make life-altering choices.
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| 0:00.0 | Irish exits are the best. |
| 0:01.1 | And Irish exit is where you basically leave the party |
| 0:04.1 | without telling anybody, just kind of like, |
| 0:06.1 | get up and kind of slowly quietly, just all of a sudden you're gone. |
| 0:08.7 | It's like, hey, where's that person? |
| 0:11.4 | There's a whole story about that. |
| 0:12.3 | Actually, here's the story. |
| 0:13.3 | How many names are by the mic? |
| 0:14.2 | And this is a sense of presence. |
| 0:15.4 | So over the course of my years as a priest, |
| 0:17.7 | I have talked with a lot of guys who are |
| 0:20.6 | entered the seminary. |
| 0:21.5 | And I talked to a lot of women who entered the content. |
| 0:23.9 | And it's one of those kind of situations |
| 0:25.1 | where sometimes what happens is this, here is a guy |
| 0:28.1 | who is dating a girl and he breaks up |
| 0:29.6 | in order to go to seminary. |
| 0:30.7 | Here's a girl dating a guy who breaks up to go to the comment. |
| 0:33.3 | While they're there, like while they're on their way |
| 0:35.4 | to the seminary or while they're in the content, |
| 0:37.6 | we kind of think sometimes what happens is they meet someone. |
| 0:41.4 | And they're like, oh my gosh, this is the reason why |
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