Discernment

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"Participant: When I am judging, I am making either myself or the other person not okay. When I am discerning, I am just seeing if there is a difference.

Gabriel: Discernment puts in no energy, invests nothing in the situation. Discernment is observation without attachment. That is about the best description in your terms. Observation without attachment.

One of the mistakes that you all make, humankind makes, is that you desire to have an outcome be a certain way. Once you get into the outcome, you don’t see the path leading to it clearly. You are so caught in what is going to be the end result that you don’t bother to figure out the little steps along the way. So, in discernment, you observe without investing in how it concludes.

Now that is difficult. I see mothers sitting over here thinking, ‘But I want to know what he is doing. I want him to do what I want him to do, and I am not going to be happy if he is doing something else.’ Is that not so? ‘He’ being her offspring, of course…

Now the thing is, Beloveds, the outcome is going to be according to the highest good for all those involved because that is only, only, whatever happens in any situation. Ah, yes, it is. I can hear some of you thinking, ‘Oh, no, I don’t think so because I can think of things that didn’t turn out. No, no, he’s wrong there.’ I have been around longer than you! Now the thing is, Beloveds, you perceive the conclusion of a situation to be good or bad, right or wrong, beneficial or harmful, according to what? Your perception and your judgment.

Let us take mother situations since you have so many of them here. Let us suppose your favorite offspring was to come bounding into your abode and say, ‘Mother, I have just won the lottery, and I’m off to live on the other side of the globe, and I shall never see you again. However, I shall send you money!’ Now what have we got going here? On the one hand, we rejoice over the good fortune of the offspring and the fact that there would be a little something coming home. What about the other side of the coin, the ‘I shall never see you again’ part? Is that not gong to detract somewhat from the joy? It is going to add a considerable element of sadness, isn’t it?

Let’s turn it around. Let us say the offspring comes bounding into the house and says, ‘Mother, I’m an out-and-out pauper. I have no place to live, no money and I can’t work anymore. I’m coming home to live with you and daddy!’ Now we have it going the other way. Instead of the prayer being, ‘Dear Lord, please bring back my offspring,’ it’s ‘Dear Lord, get rid of him!’ Is that not so?

Now I ask you, what is the difference in these two things? One gives you the constant companionship of your offspring. The other deprives you of ever seeing him again but gives you a financial security and a certain sense of joy and accomplishment for the offspring. What is wrong with both of those?

Participant: Well, we perceive one as being good and the other as being bad.

Gabriel: Really? Would you not perceive equally of good and bad in both?

Participant: Well, we perceive some aspect of one part being good and some aspect of something else not good.

Gabriel: But that is your perception. That us true of any situation. It is all in how you look at it. It is all in how you are willing to remain an observer until you know all the facts. It is a matter of your being able to love unconditionally enough that if the offspring is on the other side of the world or if they are under your nose, it isn’t going to make any difference in your feelings.

Now that is true discernment. It is when you can meet an extremely difficult situation that has mixed blessings, or no blessings, and still not get into it to the point where it wears on you….Observe it without putting your energy into it until you have seen the outcome. .. You are trusting the situation is going to come out to your dictates. That is what you would perceive to be well...True trust is when you know the conclusion is going to be a great and wonderous blessing, even if it isn’t what you would have it be. Remember, you never know what the other soul has chosen as an experience when they came to the earth. What you may perceive to be a dastardly thing might be the very thing that they need the most in order to grow or in order to be happy.

Now the thing is – and it isn’t easy but it is simple – when you perceived the situation to be difficult, you take yourself out of it and observe. …When you shift your energy from it to something wonderous like the God within you, your spiritual path, some wonderous, glorious thing, a happy memory, you are pulling your energy out of the negative and into a very neutral positive, something very neutral.

You are not feeding energy of any sort into the situation. But the situation is still going on, is it not? It doesn’t stop and wait for you, does it? …Of course not. It goes on, but you are not in it. When you do come back to it, many things have frequently changed and a lot of times, your attitude has changed as well.

As it goes along and you get more and more used to it, you will recognize that everything, with no exceptions, is proceeding exactly as it is suppose to for the results to be given, the adventures, whatever they are, to the people involved. So, therefore, no matter how terrible it appears to you at the moment, it isn’t going to turn out badly at all. It can’t! Everything goes according to the highest law and the highest law is love.”

05/11/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, DISENTANGLEMENT & DISCERNMENT, April 2, 1996, Pgs. 8-14. Copyright 2016 Sacred Garden Fellowship. All rights reserved. Photo copyright: ID 4065034 | Of © Brian T. Young | Dreamstime.com