No one can answer your call for you
Others can guide and accompany you; the "yes" that shapes your life remains irreplaceable.
When a decision is frightening, it is tempting to seek someone who guarantees the outcome. You ask for advice, but deep down you want someone else to shoulder the responsibility of choosing.
Good accompaniment offers light, asks questions, and helps recognize reality. It does not replace your conscience or promise there will never be difficulty. God calls a free person, not an extension of the one advising them.
Owning your response does not mean being left alone. It means listening, praying, weighing things up, and finally saying in the first person: "this is what I must do." Vocational maturity begins when you stop asking for impossible certainties and respond with the sufficient light you have today.
Key idea
Vocation welcomes help and discernment, but requires a free response that no one can give in another's place.
Your challenge for this idea
In a decision you are delegating, write down what you already know and the next step that only you can take.
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