Discernment

Everyone of us must answer for himself,

and the practices of others will
never warrant and secure us.

It is the highest folly to regulate our actions

by any other standard than that by which

they must be judged. If ever we would
'cleanse our way', it must be 'by taking heed

thereto according to the word of God' (Psalm 119:9):

and that 'word which is quick, and powerful,

and sharper than any two-edged sword,

piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul

and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,

and is a discerner of the thoughts

and intents of the heart' (Hebrews 4:12)

will certainly discover many things to be sinful and heinous

which pass for very innocent in the eyes of the world.

The Life of God in the Soul of Man
Henry Scougal

Amor y Amistad

"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
~ Ursula K. LeGuin