I'm about half convinced that any evidence of an encounter with God that we recognize is as like to be ego talking as God. Which is as it needs be...ego is reduced just as God is enhanced by our recognition of them. We resist not ego, we hug it and kiss it and let it go...we resist not God, we pray our thank you and know gratitude.
The hard-to-accept reality, according to me, is that we do have moments of love, joy, etc., every day...moments, fleeting Angel Unaware moments. I suspect God ensures our unawareness, knowing full well that a consciously aware ego would snatch and run with it as its own.
The tripwire is that God's fruits, love, joy, peace, patience, etc., are not available on demand. They are gifts, present in a heartbeat, leaving a glow in our heart. We are on the road to an unfailing faith that works when these fleeting moments, coming without our knowledge or control, send us to bed smiling because "something touched me today." There...each time, we doubt less that it was God.
To me, in the end, our true test is realizing God-encounters for the benefit of another. A God encounter brings change, an elevated consciousness...that is free wonder and glory. The change is proven when, not if, we freely pass it on without censure or selection...see a soul in need, silently love them consciously and freely.
Blinding flash of the obvious: God's will, God's way = the other's will, the other's way...with love.
Thank you.
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