Comments on: Signs and wonders http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=689 Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions Thu, 29 May 2014 16:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: fwschmidt http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=689&cpage=1#comment-764 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:51:47 +0000 http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=689#comment-764 Mark, thanks for the helpful response. You’ve outlined some important criteria for discernment. It’s ironic, isn’t it — or perhaps spiritually inevitable — that our desire to do what we want to do reasserts itself even in our spiritual lives, co-opting God as the one who authorizes rather than shapes our choices.

]]> By: Mark Mossa, SJ http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=689&cpage=1#comment-754 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:29:31 +0000 http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=689#comment-754 If God were trying to tell you that, then you should subsequently be witnessing the miracle of finding a lot more money in your bank account! Probably not going to happen.

On a more serious note, you’re questions are important, and on the money (so to speak!). Not everything is insignificant or merely coincidental, but we can’t start reading God into everything. God’s simply not going to move us to do something sinful, or something which jeopardizes our physical or spiritual well-being, no matter how unusual or unlikely a given experience is. In short, the miraculous requires discernment every bit as much as the ordinary.

Thanks for a helpful reflection.

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