Our life's joy...our daily life's joy...comes once we have turned our will over to the care of God. Our life will follow if and when we do that. Our turned-over will becomes our perpetual pearl beyond price for we now are free to lead a God-guided life.
It takes time to learn to trust unto living that guided life. Too often we refuse to use the boatload of patience we were born with and opt for self-will. That's just part of our learning curve.
Just yesterday someone said she thought she was accepting too much and doing too little. In my world, there is no way to be accepting too much...resigning oneself is not acceptance. Doing too little is often a temptation...especially if we've asked God what to do, what to do, and he's remained mute to our ears. It never enters our mind that we need to move on from that question, that self-perceived problem...it's been taken care of, it's just not our time to know how yet.
Eknath Easwaran recommends withdrawing our attention completely from the problem...stay pinpoint focused on now: "When we can withdraw our attention completely from the past [or the future], it is not possible to get resentful, it is not possible to be oppressed by mistakes in our past, no matter who made them. All our attention is in the present, which makes every moment fresh, every relationship fresh."
A turned-over life is a God-guided life and all we need ponder is peace, love and joy. Being human, we'll wander off into the ether but that, too, we get to accept as our learning curve. That's what self-discipline is for.
Thank you.
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