Years ago, when I was in graduate school, I had a wonderful spiritual director who would often ask me this simple question when I was in the midst of discernment: “What is it the season for?”

It was a profoundly freeing question, because it honored that my life had varying seasons, times when certain things were called for and other things needed to be released. While I was finishing my Ph.D. studies, I often had to remind myself that I needed to direct the majority of my attention and time to them if I was ever going to finish despite the many other rich possibilities calling to me.

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