About this episode

Janell Rardon explores how God communicates through metaphors and the importance of discernment in recognizing these messages.

What if God's invitations rarely arrive as explanations? What if they come as images, stirrings, symbols, recurring questions, and living metaphors that quietly ask us to pay attention? In this episode of The Heartlifter Way , Janell Rardon explores why discernment begins not with certainty, but with noticing. Drawing from the unexpected wisdom of a moonflower vine growing in her backyard garden, Janell reflects on the difference between explanation and metaphor—and why the soul often learns through symbols long before it understands through words. Together we'll explore: • Why discernment starts with noticing • The difference between explanation and metaphor • How God often speaks through recurring images, invitations, and patterns The Four Birth Season Questions for spiritual discernment: What keeps returning? What gentle nudges am I experiencing? What sensations and feelings am I noticing in my body? What is becoming clearer? If you've sensed something stirring beneath the surface of your life but can't quite explain it yet, this conversation is for you. Because sometimes the sacred arrives as a metaphor before it becomes a direction. And sometimes God's clearest invitations…

People in this episode

Host: Janell Rardon

Topics covered

• discernment
• metaphor
• spirituality
• God's invitations
• noticing
• symbols

Keywords

• discernment
• metaphor
• spiritual growth
• God's messages
• noticing
• moonflower
• symbols
• sacred invitations

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Heartlifter Way

Places: backyard garden

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