A few evenings ago I was in a wonderful meeting and among other things, we discussed God’s will. \u00a0I can still remember with such clarity how troubled I was with this idea when I first heard others discussing it in my early days of recovery. \u00a0Like so many people before me, I feared God’s will might be for me to sell every thing I owned and move to an ashram or at least to some other part of the world to do I knew not what. \u00a0I simply couldn’t imagine following any one else’s plan for me, regardless if it was God’s or not.<\/p>\n
Every day, I think for years, I tried “to listen” to discern what I needed to do, but I never got a clear sense of what God’s will was. \u00a0I heard no words. \u00a0I did get an occasional feeling but nothing was absolute. \u00a0I just kept moving forward, hoping I wasn’t too far off track. \u00a0Because my life had changed pretty significantly as the result of getting into 12 step recovery, I wasn’t in danger of doing many of the things that had been so common to my journey previously. \u00a0Thus I wasn’t in danger of angering God at least.<\/p>\n
And then I met an individual who had a very interesting perspective on God’s will. \u00a0He had been a “student” of another spiritual pathway for many years, one that I was very attracted to as well, and he explained that he thought God’s will could be defined as loving thought. \u00a0He explained it this way: \u00a0God is Love; Will is Thought; therefore, God’s will is loving thought. \u00a0It made sense to me. \u00a0It was refreshing and certainly simplified my life. \u00a0I suddenly felt like I didn’t have to wring my hands, day in and day out wondering what it was that God wanted me to do. \u00a0If I was loving toward my companions, friends and stranger alike, I would be fulfilling God’s will.<\/p>\n
My life has felt far different ever since that moment of clarification. \u00a0No longer do I stew over what I need to do. \u00a0I can keep my decisions simple. \u00a0Just do the next right, and kind<\/strong> thing. \u00a0God will nudge me forward. \u00a0Peace is the promise.<\/p>\n Do you struggle wondering what God’s will is? \u00a0Perhaps you might try to follow what my friend told me. \u00a0It feels good, quiet and right. \u00a0Let me know your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few evenings ago I was in a wonderful meeting and among other things, we discussed God’s will. \u00a0I can still remember with such clarity how troubled I was with this idea when I first heard others discussing it in my early days of recovery. \u00a0Like so many people before me, I feared God’s will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-in-the-mirror-you-and-yourself"],"yoast_head":"\n