Spiritual Discernment and Vocational Counselling paper

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Spiritual Discernment and VocationalCounselling paperDiscuss how consulting with wise counsel is important when making careerdecisions, and how it can beneficial in the decision making process. (420word count)What past and presentfactors could have influenced your approach tospiritual discernment? Be sure to include family, spiritual heritage andreligious background, present religious beliefs, and past experiences. (550word count)A client comes to you for counseling. She states she is a Christian, in her third yearof undergraduate school. She states she is struggling to choose a major because,“I am afraid that it may not be God’s will.” (800 word count)•What steps will you take to help her navigate this impasse? Why?•How might your personal position influence how you address this client’sconcerns?

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Spiritual Discernment PaperAbstractThis paper presents a personal view of spiritual discernment and theprocess. The paper examines theimportance of mainly career decisionmaking, my view of the struggles and things that influence decisions.The paper first explores decision making factors that are very importantto me based on the survey in the Horton (2009) article. I also explain mychoice of discernment approach based on the factors that are importantto me. I explain how I feel they related to the approaches explained inthe Horton (2009) article. I reveal past experiences that influence myapproach, and influence how I may career counsel someone.Personal PositionAfter doing the survey in the Article, I found that the decision makingfactors where all either somewhat important to me, important or veryimportant. Although some factors were only somewhat important to meno factors fell in the category of not important. I see value in all thedecision making factors listed in the article. I will start with saying themost important factor in any decision needing to be made is relying onGod for wisdom and guidance. I believe for all the other aspects orfactors of decision making to fall into place Prayer is a must.Using Common sense is very important to me as well, when making acareer decision I feel one must be reasonable and apply common sense.Applying common sense would be asking yourself questions like is thisjob attainable for me, is it appropriate for my skills, can is providefinancially the way I need it too. I would almost put using common sensein the same category as just having your eyes open and being in tunewith the jobs you qualify for and the opportunities that may exist.Depending on a sense of inner peace from the Holy Spirit is veryimportant to me ask well. I lean on God for direction and answersthrough prayer and scripture, I want to feel a sense of peace whenmaking any decision not only career related. In relation to a careerdecision I want to feel the peace of knowing this is where I am to be atthis time, and God has put me here for a reason. I feel a career choicemay be something at first many are UN easy about and may feel couldbe making the wrong decision. Iwant peace from the Holy Spirit, I want

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