"Concretely, abandonment to the will of God consists of finding his purpose for you in all the people, events, and circumstances you encounter."
Brennan Manning, "Reflections for Ragamuffins"
For some reason we may be under the impression that we have to run off and seek God's will for our lives. God surely must want us to do BIG things and how could anyone do BIG things around here? I must go off to the farthest reaches of the world and do something important! Not so, not so. God wants us to embrace God's will right here where we happen to be. But what can I possibly do here? We can listen to the will of God that whispers within us. Each of the people we encounter today are people that are hand-picked for us to meet. What could be God's purpose in that? Are we to visit with an older lady who is obviously lonely and doesn't have many visitors? Maybe we should stay longer than fifteen minutes--that could be God's will. Maybe we could accept the fact that the TV streaming thingy isn't working and use the opportunity to do something more constructive? Could that be more God's will than whining about how nothing is working? For some reason, these warm summer days are making me short-tempered and irritable. Could God's will in those instances be to do something for someone else and take my mind off myself? We are where we are. That doesn't mean we wait for things to change, our lives to start so we can really DO something. We DO something right here. And that probably doesn't mean wallowing around in our own bumbliness. It might mean reaching out. Love, heidi
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