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    Mindfulness and Discernment: Make the Connection

    Hannah Whitall Smith, a Quaker from the mid nineteenth century, once said, “Mind the checks.”  I respect this advice deeply, mainly as a result of not minding the checks.  I once took a personality test that was supposed to determine who in the Bible my personality was most like.  Unlike the phony Facebook tests that determine which Disney princess you should have as your maid of honor, this test based itself on the Meyers Briggs personality test.  How exactly its authors determined the results for the men and women in the Bible, I do not know.  However, my test resulted in a certain similarity to Joshua, who was brave and somewhat…