Prayer: How Will You Know?

Reader 1: When do you decide how you will live? What goes into the thoughts that shape your dreams?

Reader 2: For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD,

Reader 1: Do you know, at eleven what you want for the rest of your life?

Reader 2: . . . plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.

Reader 1: Do you ever know for sure?

Reader 2: Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.

Reader 1: Who are the role models that affect your ideas about vocations? Does God call you to pick a vocation, or does fate decide whether you will marry, remain single, or enter religious life?

Reader 2: When you search for me, you will find me. . . .

Reader 1: Or do you just wake up one day and say, "I have decided to remain single"?

Reader 2: I will let you find me, says the LORD.

(Lines for reader 1 are from Donna Kamann, Single Life: An Inside Look [Winona, MN: Saint Mary's Press, 2002], page 12. Copyright © 2002 by Saint Mary's Press.)

(Lines for reader 2 are from Jeremiah 29:11-14 , NRSV.)