The process of weaving involves setting strips of yarn or thread lengthwise on a loom and then horizontally interlacing each with threads in a pattern. The result is fabric. Experiences of caring and concern foster affective growth. Helping children to name, claim, and tame emotions like guilt, fear, relief, and jealousy provides the warp of the fabric of Christian conscience. Experiences that teach or improve perception, memory, reasoning, evidence gathering, and problem solving contribute to the development of the cognitive skills of analysis, evaluation, and judgment that are needed for right judgment.
Objective criteria form the basis for decisions made in the second dimension.
In this stage, the child identifies herself with the judgment or views the judgment as a component of her truest person and takes on the obligation to act accordingly. Therefore, the action is a response to choose what she perceives to be the loving good to do and to avoid its opposite evil. The Christian soul seeks to align with the will of God in the decision making process. She measures good and bad by God-given standards or norms that she discovers in Jesus of the Gospel, the Ten Commandments, the law of love, and the Beatitudes. In such a person, a pattern results from Christian decision making that is stirred by the Holy Spirit, attractive to others, and representative of growth in holiness.