THE MARRIAGE OF SELF-WILL TO GOD'S WILL

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere. -- Maxim Gorky, Russian writer 

I recently found myself doing that which I first learned fifty years ago and being reminded by my own actions that consciousness had raised...that there's a different way today. The brain-buster was whether I believed it was better or not was immaterial...life had changed, my mind needed to change with it.

I love when I stumble on an explanation, a validation actually, of a previous flash. The Gorky quote above is a good "for instance," as in, our spiritual mind begins as a gift and is raised deeper daily...or there is no spiritual in it. 

Our life now is fully in the care of a Power greater than ourselves, and we live for the benefit of others...whether we know it or not.

That is raised consciousness. To hold to our first understanding of, say, the Sermon is good as a building block to raise us deeper, but to stay rigidly at the place of first understanding is to pervert the Sermon to a self-determined objective and is not of God. 

Same goes with our first Steps toward a better way of life, i.e., spiritually based, no longer living for me, myself and i. We learn to go with the changes, but we never forget our first lessons on awakening...that is called "gratitude." 

We are being headed in the right direction...with missteps along the way to bless us into humbly seeking still more spiritual growth.

Paradoxically, none of this is done by self-will, none of this is done without self-will. That is the marriage of our will to God's will. 

Thank you.