The last two blogs on Discernment dealt with the types of persons and how they approach doing God’s will: the first being one who, in a sense, says ‘yes’ but then does nothing; the second being one who is busy doing a myriad of good things but not the one thing necessary, namely doing that to which God is calling. St. Ignatius speaks of a third type of person, namely, one who is truly interiorly free. These kinds of persons are passionate about doing God’s will—that is their only desire. No conditions are attached. Authentic searching for and finding the will of God begins with this attitude. Which of these three approaches is my approach: “the one who is all talk but no action” or the one who avoids the real issue and stays busy doing everything else under the sun or the one whose only desire is to be finding and doing the will of God, no matter what the cost? Source: Discernment of Spirits by Warren Sazama, SJ, National Religious Vocation Conference, Chicago, IL 60615.
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