Seems it never stops--nor should it: Discerning God's will for our lives--our present moment, daily temporal and spiritual lives.
The past two mornings (and probably many others), I realize have been taken up with a couple phone calls and then an email and responding to it. These communications (including so many in the past) always have to do with some type of problem a person is having, or some sort of message--always spiritual, as I see matters spiritually, always, one way or another.
This morning, after writing quite a bit in response to someone emailing an on-going difficulty and wanting my advice, my opinion, I realized along with yesterday's phone call involving more personalized advice and my opinion, of which the person wanted and appreciated even if cannot act on it--are quite time consuming in a temporal sense, and also limited since the verbal and written directly involve individuals.
Time, prayer, expressing spiritual thoughts and potential remedies are involved in addressing temporal problems. These issues always have spiritual roots, for God is in all aspects of our lives--permeates our fiber and comings and goings. I speak, I write, and soon it is time to temporally address my bodily pain as well as get up and tend to temporal tasks, and also to have the precious time of intimacy with His Real Presence that is my deep and personal longing and preference, of my body, mind, heart and soul!
A thought occurred as I realized it is already 10:30 in the morning, and I'm still on my floor bed and have much that it seems the Holy Spirit is nudging me to write and share. Yet I also need to get up, dressed, teeth brushed, and off to the paint store which will close early on this first Saturday in Lent (as they close early every Saturday in the calendar year).
Yes, a thought came to mind, and I will discern if the Holy Spirit gave this thought--perhaps through my guardian angel who is a messenger for the Holy Spirit. (Guardian angels are our personal angel protector, guide, and beloved friend given our souls by God, and with us through thick and thin, all through our lives.)
The thought is to ask the person/s calling or emailing, if they'd mind if I wrote the situation in anonymous fashion, and the thoughts that come to me, for better or worse, on my blog so that others, also, who might stumble upon my blog site might find anything of relevance to their own lives. Always in my verbal and written responses to others, there is the inclusion of my own experiences as I, too, have often enough dealt with similar issues in the living out life. We are in this together, yet those who call or email, seeking my input, know my response will be honest yet spiritual.
A verbal or written communication might include the honest truth often enough that I myself do not know, or that I am just sharing what I sense, or that we will pray and God will guide us further. Sometimes another insight comes later, and I either call or write or pray about it, or forget to bring it up again. I need to be more diligent in follow through, of when the Holy Spirit nudges me with a further thought or explanation or example, that I follow through with delivering.
Yet, part of my mission given by God and expressed to me is to teach--to help teach others how to stabilize emotions and seek God in all aspects of life--to see the spiritual, to see God--to grasp our purpose here is to glorify God and to love, to love to learn to love!
As part of a response to someone this morning, I pointed out that when we think God is asking something of us, to do something and not simply the more intimate and physically passive action of prayer, we tend to test the Spirits, to test out His will by going ahead with what we think we should do, or sometimes also to stay in inaction--even sometimes not "actively" praying as best we could.
So now I am going to do as we humans often "do", as I have prayed for wisdom and guidance, and while awaiting His response, if I do not "hear" within or in some signal temporal or spiritual, I will next time ask the person calling or writing, if I can use my blog space to anonymously write what comes within me, to ponder, suggest, consider, and opine regarding their situations. These situations, time and again, I notice are rather universal to us all. I also have learned that the very action of others calling or writing with their daily life trials or questions, often are ones that I, too, will learn from--especially from whatever the Holy Spirit inspires in the conversations or written responses. The intellect and will are at the center of our souls (as St. John of the Cross so inspirationally has described).
What comes from us as we are asked by others to consider for them and give our feedback to them, especially if this is one's God's tasks for us in this life to do and be, when we pray and ask--will come from our intellects and wills at the center of our souls. Additionally, up to that point, are the encircling aspects of the other layers, so to speak, encircling the center--of these layers making up our souls: spiritual or inner sensing, emotion (heart), memory, images, understanding, then intellect and will at the very center of our soul.
I will give this a try. Perhaps later, after I get the paint store task accomplished, I might write of the situation written to me, if I gain permission from the person. I can then share a bit of the situation the person is in, what the person thinks God might be asking, and then share the thoughts from me, which, as I mentioned above, often enough are also wrought from similar situations and how I've grappled, or what worked well or what I learned otherwise.
The time and energy (although all belongs to God) that it takes for me to do so much individually, might better be utilized and free me for the deep desire and calling I have from within my own soul to spend increasing "time and energy" given me by God, to be in intimate communication and adoration with and of Him in the silence of solitude He has so graciously gifted me now, in this peaceful hermitage: Solus Deus.
We shall see how it works out. Then the person/s can simply read my thoughts and opinions on whatever topic, privately. Or, I can write to him or her directly but cut-and-paste directly to this blog to share whatever might be helpful to all the anonymous others--the various readers from different countries who happen upon my blog and read it for whatever hopeful good it might bring to them as well. Even if the good is a negation--practically apophetic aspect of the negative which can thus be a type of light or enlightening thought--that is a positive!
God Bless HIS REAL PRESENCE within us!
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