We make our plans...we determine what we need do to achieve our goals. This is where our intellect is good and necessary. We take heart in St. Symeon's words, Search inside yourself with your intellect....
There...we start out heading in the right direction. We can expect to get off the path, get righted, get off and back on often and oftener...if we're doing it right. It is our reasoning mind with its enticing siren of More!, Better!, Bingo!, from which we must detach.
Our detachment comes when we realize that God does not lift our burden so we can rest in the glory of his work. No. God transmutes our hopelessness into willingness...the willingness to work with God to get to the place already prepared for us.
To quote my beloved "God Calling," And when things do not fall out according to your plan, then smile...knowing that My loving response will be to make the way as easy for your feet as it can be.
I half-blushingly admit that today is the first day ever that I noticed...realized...that the words are: as easy for your feet. Full stop. Feet. Easy for our feet.
Not a word about our feelings...our want-to...our "perfect world." When we're working with God, our feet are going to get some corns and calluses. Which, oh rats! and thank you, is the on-going and end result of all our still more spiritual growth-ing.
Seems I hear an echo from my past: If you want what we have, you'll do what we do. If we want what God has, we'll do God's will. And smile.
God loves us so much!
Thank you.
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