Our daughter was finishing her high school senior year in Wales and was trying to decide which college she would attend. Via Skype and eventually confidential text messaging we sat with her over cyberspace as she explored the options, made clear her list of pros and cons, and spoke from her heart.  As we've always included our kids in family discernment processes like job searches or other important decisions, she was familiar with a model for deciding. 

When we ended up texting the same, exact idea at the same time from 5,000 miles away and reading each other's note seconds later, it felt like the Spirit was guiding the process. Almost immediately, we and our daughter experienced what we've learned to call, "a full body goose bump!" Times of knowing are powerful for all involved and perhaps made more powerful with the waiting in the midst of the unknown. 

If Parker Palmer is on the mark and I believe he is, then discernment is not a matter of finding good advice or determining what would be successful; rather it is touching the core of who we are and doing so by being held by others while our spirit speaks. Everything else ends up being static on our inner radio if we focus on what is beyond us. Through quiet time in sacred space, individual spiritual direction with the hope of uncovering what your Wholeness is saying to you, and  journeying with others on retreat, Threshold Journey makes available time, place, and quiet for discernment.