Discernment
Above is a 14 minute recording of the provocation on discernment.
Prompts for reflection
What makes some decisions so hard - think about personal decisions and collective decisions?
What decisions are you wrestling with – at home, at work, in your community life?
Think back on big decisions in your life – were they “half chance”?
What happens when you imagine all decisions to be “half chance”?
Readings and resources
Things seen and unseen - Nora Gallagher
Turning toward the world - Volume 4 of the journals of Thomas Merton
Community: The structure of belonging - Peter Block
My blog on the End of Life Choice Act
Music
Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen - Baz Luhrmann
Hildegarde von Bingen - Canticles of ecstasy