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    Spiritual Discernment and Vocational Counselling paper Discuss how consulting with wise counsel is important when making career decisions, and how it can beneficial in the decision making process. (420 word count) What past and present factors could have influenced your approach to spiritual discernment? Be sure to include family, spiritual heritage and religious background, present religious beliefs, and past experiences. (550 word count) A client comes to you for counseling. She states she is a Christian, in her third year of 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’s concerns?

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    Spiritual Discernment Paper Abstract This paper presents a personal view of spiritual discernment and the process. The paper examines the importance of mainly career decision making, my view of the struggles and things that influence decisions. The paper first explores decision making factors that are very important to me based on the survey in the Horton (2009) article. I also explain my choice of discernment approach based on the factors that are important to me. I explain how I feel they related to the approaches explained in the Horton (2009) article. I reveal past experiences that influence my approach, and influence how I may career counsel someone. Personal Position After doing the survey in the Article, I found that the decision making factors where all either somewhat important to me, important or very important. Although some factors were only somewhat important to me no factors fell in the category of not important. I see value in all the decision making factors listed in the article. I will start with saying the most important factor in any decision needing to be made is relying on God for wisdom and guidance. I believe for all the other aspects or factors of decision making to fall into place Prayer is a must. Using Common sense is very important to me as well, when making a career decision I feel one must be reasonable and apply common sense. Applying common sense would be asking yourself questions like is this job attainable for me, is it appropriate for my skills, can is provide financially the way I need it too. I would almost put using common sense in the same category as just having your eyes open and being in tune with the jobs you qualify for and the opportunities that may exist. Depending on a sense of inner peace from the Holy Spirit is very important to me ask well. I lean on God for direction and answers through prayer and scripture, I want to feel a sense of peace when making any decision not only career related. In relation to a career decision I want to feel the peace of knowing this is where I am to be at this time, and God has put me here for a reason. I feel a career choice may be something at first many are UN easy about and may feel could be making the wrong decision. I want peace from the Holy Spirit, I want

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