Discerning the Spirits (4:1–6) My husband and I are birdwatchers. No serious “birder” would be without a good field guide or two. A field guide is simply a book with pictures and descriptions of birds and their chief identifying characteristics, including size, coloration, voice, range, habitat and so on. With a field guide and a little practice, one can become adept at identifying literally hundreds of birds. What this passage gives us is in its own way a “field guide” to identifying or discerning