Learning to "hear" God's voice (i.e., "discernment") actually begins by learning what is not God's voice.
That is to say, each of us arrives to our relationship with God with many voices in our head - the voices of our family, our culture, our friends...the voice of Reason, of our deepest hopes, our deepest fears. Indeed, our inner stage is crowded with actors repeating their lines, each calling us in a different directions.
Ignatius (of Loyola) reminds us that one of those voices is God. Go...
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