From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird
It may be a bit disappointing initially that when we look for clear answers to the burning questions in our lives, we are left only with titles of books, experiences in nature, names of people, and a series of seemingly random events. They seem too lean and superficial to constitute a doctrine of discernment. God cannot be caught once and for all or contained for all time in a system of titles, names, nature, and events. But God lets himself be suspected!. Therefore, when we pray to God or search for God in silence, we learn to recognize him in the many little ideas, meetings, happenings, signs, and wonders along the way.