Margaret Silf is an internationally known spiritual writer and retreat leader. She is the author of Wayfaring, Going on Retreat, and The Gift of Prayer. In this pragmatic and lyrical work, she looks at the spiritual ingredients that go into making sensible and sound decisions. To do so, we are often lost on a sea of possibilities or we get stuck in fear or old patterns of behavior. Wise Choices is divided into five sections:
• Clearing the Decks, where she discusses what decisions are important and which are not ours to make.
• Starting Where You Are, where she examines the importance of learning to trust ourselves and our judgments.
• Reading the Signposts, where she looks at how we discern what we've learned from our experiences with teachers and our own mistakes.
• Choosing For the Best, where she considers how we deal with making the right decision.
• Seeing It Through, where we put it all together.
Silf makes it clear that wise choices are built upon weighing all the options, assessing all the wisdom available to us, and listening to our gut feelings, intuitions, and inner compass. We should not let fear, self-doubt, or procrastination block our actions or intentions. Taking risks is an important part of our growth as human beings. "The freedom to move on means letting go of everything that holds us captive to the past. It also means accepting the consequences of whatever decision we have made."
Silf's spiritual advice on these pages is tailor-made for those who want to stay abreast of the changes that need to made in their lives.
