Brian Cates - Political Columnist ⭐️⭐️⭐️:

Word of The Day: Discernment

-"Discernment is the ability to obtain sharp perceptions or to judge well (or the activity of so doing). In the case of judgement, discernment can be psychological, moral or aesthetic in nature.

-Discernment has also been defined in the contexts; scientific (that is discerning what is true about the real world), normative (discerning value including what ought to be) and formal (deductive reasoning).

-The process of discernment within judgment, involves going past the mere perception of something and making nuanced judgments about its properties or qualities.

-Discernment in the Christian religion is considered as a virtue, a discerning individual is considered to possess wisdom, and be of good judgement; especially so with regard to subject matter often overlooked by others."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discernment

As discernment is the word of the day, let’s explore it a bit more because it’s key in becoming your own authority figure.

Discernment is using all the God-given tools you have to determine the truthfulness of what’s being seen/heard. Period. End of. Discernment has nothing to do with deferring to outside authority figures, be they parents, influencers, or whoever else isn’t your own self, so in learning to exercise discernment, a good place to begin is examining beliefs currently held. Where’d they come from? Did you decide to adopt those beliefs or were they placed there by authority figures?

Similarly, an induced emotional reaction to a situation or the news, isn’t discernment so keep the emotional body in check when practicing discernment.

Basically, give yourself permission to trust your gut/instincts/intuition. You know in your heart what’s truth and what’s bullshid, so use the tools The Creator of All Creation gave you.

The beauty of exercising discernment is it’s something that’s fluid, so as you learn more, the ability to discern becomes stronger. And best of all, if something stops holding true or begins pinging as false, you can always change your mind by shifting the beliefs held about nearly any situation.

Know in your heart that God wins; the rest of this is all of us learning to discern Truth from nonsense because we, as a collective, aren’t going through this again.