THERE ARE NO MISTAKES

Too often, it seems, we are led to believe, or lead our self to believe, that we must be rid of our will...that our will is wrong period.

The problem, according to me, is not that our will is wrong, it is in the difference between going for our own will and for God's will.

If we are serious about still more spiritual growth, we are told we must try with a will or fall by the wayside. The rest of the story is made clearer by Easwaran in his today's "Words to Live By" entry: ...after years of training, our will has become an invincible ally, ready to take on the almost superhuman challenge of stilling the mind. That to me is the two wills being reconciled within.

Our will is perfectly used when we are aligning it with God's will. When we have a want that we feel is a need, we learn to let God decide which it is.

If it is a want that feels like a need then it deserves serious attention. I do that by writing about it, by talking it over with my mentor and with friends...I ponder it for awhile. If it gets through all that still feeling necessary, I go for it.

Here's the payoff: If it turns out less than wonderful, as in not at all what I wanted, I know that, too, is God's will. I figure that's what I needed to go through for God to get me on the other side of my want to where he needed me to be.

When we accept that, we rest in the knowledge that there are no mistakes.

Thank you.