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

Article on plant blindness

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