Discernment

Only if my mind is quiet, will truth be revealed.

This virtue evokes for me a similar sense of pause as serenity did yesterday. To practice discernment requires me to have a quiet mind, one I strived to sit and settle with yesterday. Truth will only be revealed when I am able to cleanse my mind of misdirected thoughts and emotions - how many of them there have been leading me to imagine outcomes that do not embody the virtues!! Understanding at this time is currently veiled and with gentle detachment from falsity and assumptions, will my intuition be able to bubble to the surface unencumbered. It is hard to maintain stillness when I perceive that it is the time for action. But if I am being true to being guided by this virtue this morning, and simply trusting that my inner vision will clear, I will know when the time is right what that action ought to be. There are messages out there for my benefit and when I ask the true questions, the answers will be revealed. It requires me to be alert because what I perceive the answer to be and what it is, is most likely very different. My own perceptions are a veil to what is true. Am I really open, when I hold on to them, to the truth that may appear in subtle and surprising ways? Most certainly I will miss these answers completely if I do not heed this loving guidance. What is needed is reflection and prayer to shed this overwhelming desire to decide by determination alone.