Any person dwelling in such a body is changed. Sometimes gradually, sometimes instantaneously, perceptions of the world and people widen. Life moves far beyond the simplification of outward affairs into a higher responsibility to Love. One of the outcomes can be a sensitizing of gifts for discernment or sensing of states. Repeatedly Quaker ministers, practicing surrender to the call to speak in meeting, learn the difference between having a sense of a person or a meeting's state and being told by the Light to speak.
Corporate discernment is a practice that aids the whole community in deepening.
While much of my call was true as a Quaker minister, I could never rest among Friends. I believe I needed a community with a clearer archetype of healing in it. As we turn repeatedly to the stories of Jesus, and we look together at the way in which his own life was shaped by betrayal, I find this study very helpful. I left Friends and came in time here to Seekers where I am helped by all of you to hold the force of light and dark more closely together in me, where betrayal and blessing are in conversation. We spoke in depth, with great sensitivity to and with one another.