Your vocation is to continually discern from within your "being" what God is calling you to be "doing" in each new circumstance and chapter of your life. "Discernment" implies a continuing process, illustrated by one of its Greek roots. Diakrisis literally means "through crisis," and diakrino means "to judge or decide through." Most major turning points in life come to us via crisis. "Through" implies a process where the Spirit has been at work in us over time, whereas "decision" reflects an act of will at a point in time. Good decisions are the "ripened fruit" of a process of discernment.--Kent Ira Groff, Active Spirituality: A Guide for Seekers and Ministers
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good stuff. it also seems to me that discernment (like wisdom) can be a gift from the spirit, and not necessarily of our own doing. whereas we seem to bear the responsibility (good or bad) of our decisions.
George MacDonald said the first job of the Christian was to do whatever was before him/her, whether that was something mundane like cleaning a room, or something big like leading a civil rights march.
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