In seeking to discern God’s voice, journaling can be an invaluable tool for personal remembering and prayerful reflection. By recording our prayers and impressions in this way, we follow the example of Mary, who “treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.”[16] The relative slowness and solitary nature of journaling ushers us into a more creative, less reactive state in which the hand of God is more easily discerned and the whispers of his Spirit can often be more clearly heard.
