How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

by Emily P. Freeman

When something comes into our lives—a doubt, a restlessness, a sense that it’s time to make a change—and we find it difficult to put into words, or we try to express it and are dismissed or ignored, then it makes sense we would begin to outsource our confidence.

My role is not to give an answer but to hold space for people to listen to their life in the presence of God, to watch for small or large signs of hope, direction, clarity, and light.

Discernment is a formation process necessary to grow our faith, to teach us what it means to hear God, and to draw us into community. It’s about becoming wholehearted people and leading confidently from that space. All of this is part of our formation: mind, body, and spirit.

My prayer for you is that this process feels less like the bright light of fluorescent bulbs and more like the gradual flicker of lighting a candle. A flame that sparks to life and softly grows, offering a warm circle of light to sit within.

Love this!

Trust yourself to know which parts you need and which parts you can leave behind.

Here is a space where you belong, it says. Here is a room that will bear witness to your continued becoming, your confession, your life, and your faith. Here is your future, your home.