{"id":13826,"date":"2014-10-21T12:07:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/?p=13826"},"modified":"2015-01-10T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T23:38:12","slug":"discernment-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2014\/10\/21\/discernment-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Discernment: What It Does and Doesn&#8217;t Mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>PIC wizard watching chicken<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">It does mean:<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0The Holy Spirit\u00a0works\u00a0kind of like MSG, enhancing and heightening the \u201cflavor\u201d of the virtues that you\u2019ve already worked to develop \u2014 virtues\u00a0like self-control,\u00a0prudence, mercy, and self-sacrifice. \u00a0After you pray for guidance, you\u2019re probably not going to find yourself doing something utterly foreign to your normal nature or inclinations; but you may find that you have deeper reserves of patience than you expected, for instance, or a temporary ability to work harder than you\u2019re normally able to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/simcha-fisher\/discernment-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the rest at the Register.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIC wizard watching chicken It does mean:\u00a0The Holy Spirit\u00a0works\u00a0kind of like MSG, enhancing and heightening the \u201cflavor\u201d of the virtues that you\u2019ve already worked to develop \u2014 virtues\u00a0like self-control,\u00a0prudence, mercy, and self-sacrifice. \u00a0After you pray for guidance, you\u2019re probably not going to find yourself doing something utterly foreign to your normal nature or inclinations; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[620,847,846,4,137,207],"class_list":["post-13826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-choices","tag-discernment","tag-holy-spirit","tag-national-catholic-register","tag-prayer","tag-self-knowledge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Discernment: What It Does and Doesn&#039;t Mean<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PIC wizard watching chicken It does 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