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Invitation to a Journey Reflection Often times in life many of us do not choose the road less traveled on. We look for the easy way out, or we look at someone else and the path they are on, and it seems better, so we decide we are going to try and follow their path. We are always looking for someone else to guide us in our decision making, or make decisions for us. In Robert Mulholland’s book, Invitation to a Journey, he challenges us to do exactly the opposite of this. He proposes to us to the challenge of creating and following a path that is unique to us, and causes us to look inside ourselves for answers. He develops a very specific definition of discipleship as: a process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others. As we take a deeper look into the breakdown of this sentence, one will learn how to develop their own unique path to follow Christ. Mulholland breaks this definition down into four parts. This first of these parts is a process. Today’s society is based largely around that of instant gratification. We live in a culture that wants immediate results. Due to this, we as Christians often think that God has to show us immediate results as well. If we pray to him for something, w