Tools to Discerning What is the Next Best Thing to Do...Big or Small
I have often mentioned the old metaphor taught to me long ago. I have called it to many of you “feelings are road signs”. As we drive our cars from here to there, there are signs everywhere…”this way to Greenville”, “men at work ahead”, “merge”, “Starbucks (stop here!)”… and on and on. Someone once said that our feelings play the exact function of road signs in our inner worlds. They contain code, information, vital material for our next-best-thing-to-do toward well being and goodness and thriving our lives. All things I am passionate about leading others (and myself) to follow. If we pay attention, there is wisdom in our deep places (AKA the knit-in Holy Spirit-laced authentic self) that has exactly what we need to arrive there. “At the heart of the discernment process is the ability to pay attention to…the inner dynamics that give us clues to whether the step we are considering will nurture life in us: the life of Christ lived in and through our most authentic