If God loves you as much as he loves the saints, then it would follow that He is guiding your life to assist you to attain sainthood. It may not look like the sainthood that we read about but it is sainthood nonetheless. We need to trust God.
How do I know if I am responding to His guidance? You should be advancing in holiness. Have you an urge to receive frequent communion or go to confession? Have you been wanting to stop sinning, especially the mortal sins. Have you an desire to pray more? These are all signs or fruits.
Humility is important. Do you realize how sinful you are and how much you need the help of Jesus. All good signs.
Are you dissatisfied with the shows on TV? Do you have a yearning that nothing seems to satisfy? Do you think often about God?
It is easy to feel discouraged and somewhat lost. Your feelings are not the best yardstick to measure your holiness. If all was joy and roses, do we really love God or just love the good feelings that we experience. The saints loved God whether in consolation or desolation, pleasure or suffering, certitude or doubt.
Psalm 42:
As the deer longs for streams of water,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, the living God.
When can I enter and see the face of God?
My tears have been my bread day and night,
as they ask me every day, “Where is your God?”
Those times I recall
as I pour out my soul,
When I would cross over to the shrine of the Mighty One,
to the house of God,
Amid loud cries of thanksgiving,
with the multitude keeping festival.
Why are you downcast, my soul;
why do you groan within me?
Wait for God, for I shall again praise him,
my savior and my God.
My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I remember you
From the land of the Jordan and Hermon,
from Mount Mizar,
Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your torrents,
and all your waves and breakers
sweep over me.
By day may the LORD send his mercy,
and by night may his righteousness be with me!
I will pray to the God of my life,
I will say to God, my rock:
“Why do you forget me?
Why must I go about mourning
with the enemy oppressing me?”
It shatters my bones, when my adversaries reproach me,
when they say to me every day: “Where is your God?”
Why are you downcast, my soul,
why do you groan within me?
Wait for God, for I shall again praise him,
my savior and my God.
The journey is important. Every moment God is present. He does not abandon us. The Bible tells us so. If you go to Mass then remember the words spoken – Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb. The phrase is used in the Catholic Mass just before the distribution of the Eucharist. You are there because God has called you. These words are from the Book of Revelation in the Bible
Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who have been called to the wedding feast of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These words are true; they come from God.” – Revelation 19:9
Know that you are Blessed. On the Road to Emmaeus the two disciples were speaking after their encounter with Jesus and said
Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?” – Luke 24:32
Worth noting is they use the past tense – Were not our hearts burning. That feeling did not remain with them. But they remembered it and recounted their experience. In the Gospel story of the Transfiguration, the vision of a transfigured Jesus passes and Peter, James, and John his brother all have to come down from the mountain and resume their daily lives. If you have ever experienced a joy or profound peace because of Jesus and the Gospel keep that in your heart and remember it in difficult times. When in heaven it may be those difficult times that are realized of being the most valuable.
Maybe you have not yet experienced a joy or peace on your journey. Life may be a burden. Maybe you are yearning for something more. Take heart from the words of the Bible
Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,
because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it [on] the last day.
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him [on] the last day. – John 6:37-40
and
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” – Matthew 28:19-20