Good Morning Garden

Thy Will Be Done

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10).

Now we too often choose to use our free will in a negative way; allowing ourselves to think selfishly, and this wrong thinking brings upon us all our troubles. Instead of understanding that it is our essential nature to express God, to be ever about our Father’s business, we try to set up our own account. We abuse our own free will, trying to work apart from God; and the very natural result is all the sickness, poverty, sin, trouble, and death that we find on the physical plane. We must never for a moment try to make plans or arrangements without reference to God, or suppose that we can be either happy or successful if we are seeking any other end than to do his Will.

Our business is to bring our whole nature as fast as we can into conformity with the will of God. “In his will is our peace,” said Dante, and the Divine Comedy is really a study in fundamental states of consciousness, the Inferno representing the state of the soul that is endeavoring to live without God, the Paradiso representing the state of the soul that has achieved its conscious unity with the divine Will. It was this sublime conflict of the soul that wrung from the heart of the great Augustine the cry, “Thou has made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they find themselves in Thee.”

Our free will and creativity is what defines us as human beings. Yet, they are most often the very attributes which separate us from God’s will or cause us to act against God’s will. Until we sublimate our will to God’s and use our creative capacity to manifest God’s will, we will find happiness, peace and fulfillment to be elusive states. When we achieve unity with God’s spirit and will, all things will lead to our best good. If we base our plans, decisions and priorities on God’s will, they will give us hope, confidence and harmony in all we do. This is not easy to hear or easy to do, but it is nonetheless true.

Z gardener