Parker Palmer: Don’t follow someone else’s truth

“Creating and holding space for discernment is profoundly counter-cultural work. We live in a culture that too often regards us as empty vessels to be filled with someone else’s knowledge, someone else’s agenda, someone else’s truth… Spiritual discernment is about trusting the fact that all of us are made in God’s image and all of us have access to God’s call for our lives.”

— Parker J. Palmer, 2010
Quaker author, educator, and activist

Today’s Invitation

Trust that you have access to God’s call for your life.

This Week’s Query

What do you do when a decision requires discernment?

How do you “try” truth?

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  • Parker J. Palmer is an American Quaker author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has published ten books and numerous essays and poems, and is founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage and Renewal.

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