The Practice of Catch and Offer

Questions 95–103

95What should I do with intrusive thoughts?

Catch them without granting them authority and offer them without acting on them.

96What should I do with shame?

Bring it into consciousness rather than hiding from it, then direct it toward God.

97What should I do with guilt?

Let it reveal responsibility, repair what can be repaired, and turn Godward.

98What should I do with success?

Catch pride, gratitude, pleasure, and ambition and offer them.

99What should I do with failure?

Catch humiliation, disappointment, anger, and fear and offer them.

100What should I do with joy?

Offer it.

101What should I do with despair?

Offer even the inability to feel hope.

102What should I do when I feel nothing?

Offer the emptiness.

103What should I do with everything that arises?

Catch and Offer.