What else can I do?

[seeker_of_God]

Barb,

I’m really sorry to hear about your situation. I’ll be praying for you, too.

I just got this book today, called The Practice of the Presence of God. I really feel it’s speaking directly to me, as it’s exactly talking about some of that which I posted here, plus more.

Nick9, thanks a lot. I will try, and hopefully the advice of this book will help me out more.

I spoke to the vocational director, and he’s putting me in contact with a spiritual director, so I’m waiting for that.

I guess I’m just trying to see how to balance the two. Though I see how it is important to do well in these classes, it also seems superfluous if I put most of my time into that. I have so much going on that I’m trying to juggle and structure between that, and my religious life.

 

[NotThatGuy]

seeker of god,

I just want to say that I feel and am experiencing the exact same feelings you are, with the exception that instead of having school to contend with, I have my day job.

It’s not terrible, but it’s really quite meaningless as far as I can see. I have to fight off the urge to go on the internet all day and read religious things or look at vocation sites and all of that.

I feel torn and confused too. Going through this and trying to make a decision about what to do with my life is the hardes thing I’ve ever had to face.

I ended up majoring in Philosophy because I didn’t care about anything else in college. As you say, I couldn’t imagine studying anything else. I felt the same.

Truly, I don’t have any real advice for you as I’m in your boat with one exception: turn more and more and more and more to Mary. Pray the Rosary. Consider consecrating yourself to Mary (per the method of St. Louis De Montfort).

I say this because it is really only in those times where I try to be “one” with Mary that I can find some peace and perhaps solace that I will, someday, find my way. Mary is truly our Mother, I believe, and the “best path” to Christ, though that is a horribly crude way of putting it.

She loves us.

I feel for you and will try to remember you in my prayers.

NTG