I was so moved by the truth in this as I came across it on the internet. Often times, when we ask, we expect an answer right away, or soon. BUT, if we live so much in hearing the answer, we might not allow room for God to show us exactly how to live it out. Although the author wasn’t writing this specifically about discernment at all, I – personally – believe Rainier Maria Rilke couldn’t have said it better:
“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
Come Holy Spirit, fill us as You will…