Discerning the Call

I just returned from a weekend discernment process that was both intense and extremely rewarding.  There were just as many different visions of God as there were people discerning the call. I met people who are just coming out of high school who are looking for the next step in their journey and middle aged people who have worked all there lives in the church and now think it would be great to be paid for it.
There were people who wanted to be ordained ministers, people who wanted to work with kids, or the poor or work oversees. There were ordained ministers who work in rural settings and in inner-city missions, in spiritual direction, pastoral care, art therapy, social justice and gay rights.
It gave me so much hope that the presence of the Divine is working in so many lives, in so many ways. It is incredible the nourishment that you can receive through community spiritual experience. It also gave me hope that there are people out there who want to spend there lives caring for others, helping others through some of the hardest times in life, guiding others towards spiritual growth and well being.
I hope I can follow the example I was shown this weekend. To live a compassionate and useful life in service of others.

Namaste