God’s will is simple |

dried sunflower blooms from the backyard garden 2019

You often hear people say that in every moment, in every event, we must seek to discover the will of God. But such an approach is rather narrow and scholastic and int he end it only leads you to anxieties and doubts. All it does is show that the person is troubled, worried, caught up in problems and thus at a distance from God.

Our will needs to be completely absorbed by the will of God. When this happens, there is no agonized questioning about “what God wants”, because in a certain way I am not, as it were conditioned or colored by my own will, but I enact the will of God. And God’s will is something very simple and within reach. There is no need for someone to puzzle over what it is, or how to recognize it, or how it should be acted on in every singe instance. When a person reaches this point. which is the basic point of departure for the spiritual life, then it is easy to enter into the mind of the Lord.