Spiritual Discernment
Sort of like doing laundry?

Friends,
Spiritual discernment is a deep listening to what is calling to you in your process of decision making. What is the wisdom Spirit is leading you to? As I was discerning this week, I wrote about what the process of spiritual discernment felt like by me. How can we pay attention to the feelings in the moment before we package them up and move on.
Peace,
Jace
Spiritual Laundry
My heart is jumbled up like laundry
after the spin cycle. Pant legs twisted
together with shirt arms.
It all looks flat
against the drum of the washer
when you first open the door.
The spinning makes it all a blur.
The outside is calm until you open and
begin to untwist and sort out the concerns.
Feelings are slowly exposed as each twist unfolds.
Laundry is like discernment. Colorful emotions
sorted into warm and cold cycles.
And where is Spirit?
In the water soaking and penetrating every piece.
And in the end, untwisted or not, it’s all put in the dryer.
Ready to be folded and placed in a drawer until the next cycle.
Jace Belz
Discernment is key to every wisdom tradition. It’s about sorting out the stuff of life — the experiences we have, the people we walk with, the “signs and signals” we pick up — by asking good questions about their meaning and importance in the living of our lives. Is this my problem, or does it belong to someone else? Is this something from which I can learn, or have I already been there and done that? Is this life-giving for me and those around me, or is it death-dealing in ways small or large? Is this something to which I can give myself, or must I let it go? Parker Palmer From What Moves and What Stays: The Essential Movement of Discernment.
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of clarity. Rainer Maria Rilke


Perfectly you, Jace, smack dab in the Beauty of the Now to the Next!
Laundry from paragraph to poetry!