Adventure Awaits: How to Interpret Your Desires and Hear God’s Voice

Shannon Whitmore reviews a new book on discernment for teens (and beyond) by Stacey Sumerau.

Adventure Awaits: How to Interpret Your Desires and Hear God’s Voice

By Stacey Sumereau

Publisher: Ave Maria Press

As a youth minister, discernment is one of the most asked-about questions from teens. They all want to know how you can “hear God’s voice.” They want to know what that voice sounds like, how you can best hear it, how to remove the distractions that it heard to hear. They want to know about signs, how to interpret them, how to respond to them, how to even recognize them.

Teens ask the questions most people wonder about at some point in their lives. Stacey Sumereau does a wonderful job answering many of these most-frequently-asked questions. 

By combining personal experience and the wisdom that she has gained from it, Stacey addresses many of the most burning questions about discernment. Her anecdotes are both very entertaining and poignant in communicating some of the greatest questions and concerns surrounding discernment. Reading about Stacey’s experiences on Broadway, in the convent, and as a new wife and mother really makes you feel as if you’re right there with her, anxiously waiting to see what she will choose and where her adventure will lead her next.  

Written for Teens, But Adults and Young Adults Will Benefit Too

If you’ve ever had a question about discernment, if you’re a teen or young adult with all of life’s “big choices” before you, or if you’re well into your life’s adventure, Adventure Awaits has something of value for you. We all have a wonderful adventure ahead of us, and it’s just waiting for us to take the next (or the first) step. 

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