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Discernment is accessing the wisdom of an individual’s insight to discover what is necessary and real. It
is being able to distinguish between what is right and what is approximately right, to recognize
inconsistencies, and being proactive to know how to fix whatever is wrong.

Discernment is anchored on prayer and not on questions that pop in the mind, because questions
change over time; but prayer requires reflecting in silence, contemplating and possessing the faith in the
Supreme Being that the answers to our questions will be revealed at the right time, in God’s perfect
time. Prayer empowers us to be guided by God’s grace, belieiving that praying to God will provide us the
answers we long for. Discernment is a gift, and when we pray, we hope to be gifted with discernment.

Discernment becomes a necessary part of daily life when we have to make crucial decisions or when we
have major life questions that need answers. When we discern before we make the decisions of our life,
discernment puts us in silence to create room for our deepest perceptions, thus opening ourselves to
clarity. Once we open ourselves to clarity,we become more attentive to the messages that come in
subtle and unexpected ways, and we hold decisions light until the truth emerges.

For a person to discern, he needs to detach himself from rushing decisions. He must be able to
distinguish facts from assumptions and choose the best path. To discern, a person must have faith
in God, because , discerning is anchored on prayer, and praying is believing that God will reveal
the answers to our questions in His perfect time. Practically, To discern is to ask questions, use
logic, and use gut feel.
Discernment must not focus on one single question because it can change over time,
and more questions will arise as a person discerns. A discerning person must make a
list of pros and cons, devoting time on using cold and calculated logic, to see what
would be the best choice. Logic could possibly answer questions about the choices
concerning the concrete like what major should a person should be or enroll in, but
logic will fail to answer such question as what a person wants in his life.
So a third strategy is to use gut feeling that will convey what is right. Gut feel requires a
person to start looking inside and see what he feels inside, what his gut was telling him
about his purpose in life, and where he feels he was going to be fulfilled and
accomplished in life. Relying on Gut feeling requires trying something out, so following
the gut feeling needs to be acted out or put into action. From example, if a teenager
feels like God wants him to be a priest, then he must enroll in the seminary.
Soon, the gut feel will reveal itself if it was the right thing or path to take because that
gut feel will only grow stronger, and others will affirm that the person is moving in the
correct direction. These signs will be like God’s voice moving a person towards what
God wants him to be.
 Part 2:
While working on the Winchester house, I realized that Sarah was planning to put
the house on fire with her lit cigarette. As I was walking my way down out of the roof, I
saw Sarah walking by the yard, as if talking to herself. Then I heard her say that her
relatives will never live in the Winchester house as heirs to the estate because it is only
her and her immediate family who should. Then she reached out to her left pocket and
put out a pack of cigarettes and grinned at hem while uttering “This will keep those
illegitimates of our estate, and they will burn along with this house tonight.” I thought
that the words she minced were just a furious thought and that she will not really burn
the house down, until my fear was confirmed: I saw Sarah arriving home late afternoon
and unloaded from her car a gallon of petrol, and hid it underneath the stockpile of
lumber and paint. Sarah was planning to make it appear that the house was put ablaze
accidently by a cigarette butt that was thrown accidentally on the stockpile of lumber
and paint to be used for the house renovation. She never realized I could hear her and
see her from the roof where I was. I made a conscious effort not to catch her attention
so I could hear whatever she will mutter. Sarah has been her clan’s ‘black sheep’, and
the entire village notoriously knows here for being such.

Part 3:
I am a stepchild of Jason Winchester, the only son and second child of the owner
of the Winchester House, Mitchell Winchester. With the early demise of my sterile
stepfather being an heir to the Winchester estate, I was named the heir of my
grandfather’s mansion. The thought of being the sole heir was overwhelming, it hadn’t
sunk in to my being, because no Winchester blood runs in my veins, and all my step-
grandfather’s relatives had their eyes on Old Mitchell’s fortune. Other than my mom and
stepfather who dies early, the old man of the Winchester estate was the only person
warm to me in his own house: he took care of me, fed me, carried me in his arms, sat
me on his lap, put me to sleep and called me ‘my child’ when my stepdad brought me
and my mother in this house when I was barely four years old.His treatment of me and
my mother and a giving us a home was more than enough for me, and I was more than
ready to leave when Mitchell breathes his last, so hearing the lawyer say I am the heir
to this property was something beyond expectation. Out of gratitude, I will take care of
this house the way Mitchell would if he were still alive. If there needs repair, I will just
have the old and rotten parts replaced, but will I retain the architectural design and
model. I will make this house open to the entire clan, and will allow them to stay for so
long as they wish, but they must work productively and never be indolent, as that’s what
the old house owner wanted every resident of this house must be.
Vocation is the way a person freely chooses to live his life in which he shows his love for God by serving
not only himself and his family to find and fulfill his purpose in his existence to ultimately know ,serve
and love God in the next life.

Vocation is very important in day-to-day life because through it, a person simply noes not make more;
instead he becomes more. Our vocation shapes, molds, refines, inspires, motivates and gives direction ,
purpose and meaning to our day-to-day existence. The work we do as a vocation becomes our means of
giving our life to God. For example, if a person chooses to be a teacher, he uses it to serve God by being
a good teacher, who not only teaches but educates his students with desirable attitudes and moral
values, to become good citizens, morally upright and good individuals, and helps them to become
literatre to be able to finish formal education, find a decent job and live a decent life later

A vocation culture is an ideal way of life in which each and every person commits himself to a life of
service to other by responding to and accepting his calling to serve others and find purpose and meaning
in their day to day life as their way of serving God through others. To attain this vocation culture, what
every person must do is to Pray to be holy, to be converted, to worship; To Evangelize by teaching, by formation, by
catechism; To Experience in the form of worship, community, service, and witnessing; To Mentor meaning to accompany, to
guide and/or to serve as role model, and to invite others to do the same by discerning, by choosing a vocation, and by committing
themselves to their vocations

These can be implemented in practical means by finding opportunities to vitalize and nurture faith and spiritual
renewal.ofthe youth, for every one to live with passion and conviction their vocation to proclaim the Gospel and inviting
young people to discern their own call., and by nviting religious and priests to be present in youth activities and program.