http://rmarsh.com/2005/12/09/spiritual-direction-finding-a-way/ Spirituality and Theology Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://rmarsh.com/2005/12/09/spiritual-direction-finding-a-way/#comment-122 Rob Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:32:18 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/12/09/spiritual-direction-finding-a-way/#comment-122 The idea of discernment, the way I'm talking about it, is not about standing back and being able to label an experience in its pristine state as one thing or another. I suspect that wouldn't even be possible. Simply remembering causes some kind of movement. What we can do is have some say over which movements we receive and which we reject--tentatively of course--always trying to gauge whether we are being drawn toward God in the process of not. Our experience never stands still but we have some leverage to let it flow in some directions rather than others. Does that make any more sense? The idea of discernment, the way I’m talking about it, is not about standing back and being able to label an experience in its pristine state as one thing or another. I suspect that wouldn’t even be possible. Simply remembering causes some kind of movement. What we can do is have some say over which movements we receive and which we reject–tentatively of course–always trying to gauge whether we are being drawn toward God in the process of not. Our experience never stands still but we have some leverage to let it flow in some directions rather than others. Does that make any more sense?

]]> http://rmarsh.com/2005/12/09/spiritual-direction-finding-a-way/#comment-121 crystal Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:17:04 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/12/09/spiritual-direction-finding-a-way/#comment-121 Discerning an experience seems like it would be difficult ... when you go back in repitition, you sort of change what originally happened, and if you try to ignore the counter-movement, would you not then be even more changing what actually happened? Discerning an experience seems like it would be difficult … when you go back in repitition, you sort of change what originally happened, and if you try to ignore the counter-movement, would you not then be even more changing what actually happened?

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