GOD'S OWN GPS

I watched the Beatles' 50th celebration on TV last night and was shocked to remember that JFK was assassinated less than three months before the Beatles came to us via Ed Sullivan. Oh, the excitement! That November of 1963 I did not believe I would ever smile again.

No idea why, but I'm reminded of a song of the '60s that had the line, "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

My big-time wow was learning that all it takes to grow younger is for me to get over myself. And it's true...won't keep the grey hair from growing, won't stop the wrinkles from coming, but it will stretch our minds which is where younger lives. We stay active and positive because we are seeking to give...to give to you, not to get for me. It requires us to ever be aware that our happiness depends on your happiness.

The giant hook, of course, is that we cannot do that on our own.

I cannot possibly be more concerned for your happiness than I am for my own just by deciding to do that no matter how right I believe that to be. I know this for an absolute fact because I've tried it so many times and failed so consistently. The end result was me cursing total strangers, kicking the dog (not really...maybe wanting to), just angry. Does resentful ring a bell?

How can having such high-flown objectives not be God's will? It's that splat of ourselves all over the sidewalk that awakens us to the fact that though that may well be God's will, God has a different way of getting there. His own GPS so to speak. We need to follow his guidance...or it's just another self-determined objective, our own self-will, which will run us ragged yet never get us where we need and even want to be.

God's will and our will may be the exact same thing...but we must seek and follow God's will to get there. 

Thank you.