Topic: Discernment

Living in hope-fuelled anticipation of God’s promised future does not mean withdrawing from the life of the world around us.

Discerning the will of God is a skill that needs work if you want to develop it, whether as a community together or as individuals.

En Cristo somos uno con toda la carne y la sangre, y por lo tanto nuestra lucha no es contra ningunas personas, sino contra los espíritus y los principados y los potestades que dividirían a la gente y les harían enemigos.

We only reliably recognise and combat evil by listening to Jesus and taking his wisdom into our hearts.

Because we really don’t have the whole truth, the Spirit will be heard only when we are together, listening to one another in love.

Much of reality is usually hidden to us, but we can catch glimpses that become sustaining visions.

If God seems unjust, we can and should question God’s integrity, for God welcomes our questions in order that the falsehoods might be stripped away and the truth revealed.

God’s action in the world and in our lives is constant and faithful, but rarely flamboyant or unambiguous. Discerning God’s activity is therefore a learned skill.

Jesus has sown the seeds. It is up to us to respond and even though we may get excited and the interest dissipates, or we get distracted and let the other priorities take a hold of us, or we actually feel nothing, the challenge for us is to continue our walk with God.

A growing incidence of cataclysmic violence is not a sign of God’s activity, but it does call us to hold on to our hope and look for God’s action in small signs of life coming from death.

God is doing and saying far more than we can see or hear, but God is always ready to penetrate the presumptions and complacencies that are closing our eyes and ears.

When we glimpse the fullness of what could be, we are called to the tough work of bridging the gap between here and there.