Whispers from God

"God calls us gradually, from one level to the next. He attracts us in some mysterious way. We become aware of it after it is done. But it is often very simple: our conscience is stirred, or becomes uncomfortable, with very specific points of departure which deceive us because they are too unassuming, too close at hand. We do not believe that faith is already there, that it is calling us, and that, as the Epistle to the Romans says, God 'stirs up our jealousy.' In a discrete way he proposes something better, a surpassing of ourselves, within our conscience. For Abraham--and Abraham did not know what it meant - : to have a son; for Saint Peter: to become a fisher of men. But God remains disconcerting, so discrete is he. He arouses us, stirs us up, but we are always free to prefer something else and not pay attention."

~ Fr. Bernard Bro, O.P.