"Daily personal prayer, examination of conscience, and
participation in a faith-sharing group: these smaller practices can be of real
benefit to us in sustaining the larger practice of saying yes to life, saying
no to destruction.
"Together, they help us to understand, judge, and
evaluate our daily choices and decisions in light of their relation to our
ultimate happiness, as individuals and as humans in community.
"If we are to enhance and build up the capacities for a
good, wholesome, and holy life, we must learn to say yes to what affirms and
renews wholeness and life. And we must learn to say a related no to what
induces and brings about destruction and ruin.
"In this practice, we are invited and challenged to
make a fully conscious choice about who it is we shall become."
-M. Shawn Copeland, "Saying Yes and Saying No," in
Practicing Our Faith, ed. by Dorothy C. Bass
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