Tag: discernment
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The Lantern Practice: Looking for the Hidden Good
Goodness rarely explodes. It holds. This installment of The Lantern Practice goes looking for the quiet good that never makes a headline — the mercy, kindness, and ordinary faithfulness holding more together than we realize.
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Lantern Practice: Do Not Gloat Over the Explosion
When something wrong is exposed, it is easy to gather around the explosion and mistake gloating for justice. The Lantern Practice asks us to tell the truth without delighting in shame, and to let correction make us sober, not smug.
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The Lantern Practice: The Alibi and the Confession
Sometimes the sentence we use to defend ourselves is the very place truth is waiting. The Lantern Practice helps us look gently at the confession hiding inside the alibi, so what has been covered can come into mercy and begin to heal.
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The Lantern Practice: Do Not Mistake the Explosion for the Whole Story
When the world gets loud, we often mistake the explosion for the whole story. The Lantern Practice is a gentle way of seeing beyond the smoke, asking what is being revealed, what is being excused, and where hidden goodness is still quietly working.
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Leading the Tool: What My Shed Taught Me About AI
AI can be a helpful tool — but only when we give it clear, sequenced instructions. After a shed design mishap involving stairs through a wall, I learned an important lesson about structure, responsibility, and leading the tool rather than letting it lead us.
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Formed in Love, Human and Divine
Relationships shape who we become, often in ways we only recognize with time. This reflection explores the people, mentors, family, and spiritual relationships that have positively influenced my life and formed my understanding of love, faith, and purpose.
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🧭 A Compass, Not a Map: On Becoming, Discernment, and the Journey Ahead
I didn’t set out to define sainthood. I set out to listen. To wonder. To walk slowly through the question: What does it mean to become holy—not in the eyes of the world, but in the eyes of God? Discernment, I’ve come to believe, is not about finding the “right” answer. It’s about becoming the…
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Becoming a Saint in God’s Eyes: Part IV: The Journey Grace and Works Joined Together
A gentle meditation on grace, works, and the slow pilgrimage toward holiness. This reflection explores how sanctifying and actual grace cooperate with our daily actions, how spiritual dryness can deepen our faith, and how saints serve as living compasses guiding us toward union with God. Ordinary deeds become extraordinary when done through love, by grace,…