God's will - The good news and the "bad" news

The good news is that your eternal life is going to be so much grander than eternal happiness and bliss in paradise. You are going to live in such a beautiful, loving, ecstatic, blissful connection with your creator, that the adjectives that I just used cannot even begin to describe it. 

This state is even available in this life and can be experienced longer and more intensely depending on our choices.

The “bad” news is the “depending on our choices” part. The “bad” news is that if we want to experience this, we have to do our best to stop doing what is bad for us and do more of what is good for us. We have to stop doing things that take us further away from God and do more of what brings us closer to God. Which means that we have to swallow our pride and do what God says. 

This starts on the inside. With a change of attitude. With the cultivation of humility. “Humility” is one of those words whose meaning is so important. And for me, one of those words that I hadn’t really reflected on until a couple of years ago. What does it mean to be humble? It was right in front of me. I could seriously brag about this or that without seeing that I had a problem with humility. And I can still get caught up in stubbornly wanting to have my will, even when I ought to know that it shouldn’t matter much. When I ought to know that there aren’t many things in this temporary life, in this temporary world that truly matter. Not from the perspective of eternity. Which is the perspective that will gradually remove the dust from our eyes.

Will I let the world fool me, trap me and control me while I attempt to have “my” will? Or will I freely choose God’s perfect will and allow him to set me free? The choice is easy once we see it clearly. We can either grasp for the empty pleasures that the world provides. Or we can fulfill our divine purpose. Which means enjoying the creation the way God intended for us to enjoy it. 

When infused with God’s spirit, our senses come fully alive. Everything feels, tastes, sounds, smells and looks better. The emotions associated with our sensations become stronger. Feel more real and meaningful.

You may ask: how can an omnipotent, omnipresent, infinite, eternal being be so personal that he has a will for each and everyone of us? And yet, this is exactly how it is. God wants to write us into his love story. We were made to love God and to be loved by God. This is the whole purpose of our existence. Sadly many of us don’t always live in a way that reflects this love. I don’t always live in a way that reflects this love.

We don’t just pray because it makes us feel good. Or because it puts us in a state where it's easier for us to believe in our ability to reach our goals. We pray because God listens to us. Because God wants to communicate with us. Because God is interested in us. Even if God already knows everything about us, he still wants us to turn to him consciously. To speak to him directly. And when we do, it changes us.

If we try earnestly, this is what we will eventually start feeling with all of our being. Not all of the time. In the beginning we will just have glimpses of this relationship. But these glimpses are so powerful that they will keep us going. We will want more of them. We will have more of them. In this life or the next one. And they will be more real and meaningful than anything we can ever experience without God.

God wants to give us everything. And all he wants in return is for us to seek his love, which is by far the best gift of all his gifts.

In a sense, finding out what God’s will is, is very simple. At least what to look for is very simple. 

God’s will is simply what comes natural, when we completely stop fooling ourselves. When we truly start acting in the manner that feels best in every given situation. In other words, when we get our egos out of the way, we will see that our will and God’s will are one. If God has a will and wants what’s best for us, how could it be any other way?

We can live in a natural flow or we can go against the natural flow. Resistance or non-resistance. This can be applied to anything in life. Does what I do follow the natural flow of life or does it disrupt it? This is something that we can only know for ourselves. But it is how life operates whether we like it or not. This is God’s will. And nothing that we tell ourselves can ever change that. The big mistake that has been made with regard to this throughout history is to attach morals to it. Hence, we have made something that needs to be understood on a personal level, into collective morals and dogma, that is forced upon people by the authorities. When we understand this principle, authorities become unnecessary. Because when we understand this principle, we understand that whatever action that goes against the natural flow of life, first and foremost damages the one engaging in the action. Do I want to hurt others and myself? Or do I want to heal others and myself? Do I want to get closer to, or further away from God? 

It is this simple. The difficult thing is not to understand this. The difficulty lies in letting go of our pride. It’s difficult to admit that we don’t have everything figured out. That our approach to many things comes from a need to be right and feel superior. Not from what will lead to the most happiness for everyone involved.

Furthermore, we have accumulated so much baggage, in the form the opinions and views of friends and family, that are just as- or even more confused than we are, of societal and cultural norms and expectations, habits, perceived needs and so on. Many times we haven’t really reflected on why we’ve adopted certain ideas and perspectives. It has more or less just happened. We’ve reacted to something long ago. And then we’ve used that reaction to interpret other similar experiences or information. And so it goes. Cause and effect with no real, conscious choices. 

I tell myself that I want something because of one reason. But really, my reason is another. Or at least, I’m not telling myself or others the whole truth. One example that I ran into a while back, was that I tried to stay fit because of health reasons. This was partially true. But the reason was also vanity. If it wasn’t, I would have worked out differently. This realization led to the choice of changing my workouts. Which I did. I started working out in a way that focused on improving my body instead of growing muscles and shedding fat. Which led me to having more pleasurable workouts. It also led me to the realization that I was basing a far from negligible part of my self-worth on how I looked, rather than who I was. Which also has prompted me to examine other areas where I base my self-worth on things that don’t really matter.

I’ve had a taste of what is possible when I let go of my ego’s petty wants and wishes. When I, for example, let go of my pride and need to be right. When I try to meet every person, regardless of the circumstances, with love and respect. Or when I just accept what is, instead of wishing for things to be different. Or when I stop needing that other people see me a certain way. And so on. There is such a light sense of freedom in this. And yet, when I try to let go of old patterns, I’m shaken by anxiety. And even though it feels like crap, I feel such a strong pull from these habits, that I often give in to them. Even though I know that I get absolutely nothing from giving in and even though I know that the anxiety has no basis in reality. 

In the end, God’s will is to live in harmony and not in disharmony. Harmony is what comes easy and natural. When we just can let go and trust, we won’t need anything else. We can put our lives fully in God’s hands. But until we are ready to do this, we will have to learn more about ourselves, struggle with ourselves and feel the pain of failure. Before we are ready to hear the voice of God on the inside all the time, we will need external sources to guide us. But remember this, even if we cannot se it from our current perspective, God and his Holy Spirit are always closer than anyone or anything in the world. The Holy Spirit will always work in our lives to the degree that we let go of our ego’s petty wishes and desires.

Freedom in God or slavery to the world?

Do you want to be completely free to make your own choices, with no one ruling over you? I’m sorry to be the one to break it to you, but that option is not available. You may think that it is. It most probably seems that way. But it isn’t. At least this is what I believe and I believe that I have good reasons for my belief. 

Here is the conclusion that this blog post is about written in as plain language as I’m capable of: As far as I can tell, the only options we have are to either choose God’s will freely or being enslaved by the world. 

How could it be otherwise? If God is infinitely more wise than we are, always wants what’s best for us. And we, on the other hand, are capable of infinite depths of self-deception. This capacity for self-deception is part of what it means to live in a fallen state.

As with so many things, I was blind to what was in front of me for most of my life. For most of my life I’ve lived in a very confused state. To a certain degree, one that is far from negligible, I still do. But the more I let God’s will guide my life, the clearer things seem to become.

When I finally started to see the state that I was in, I had ran into one dead end after another without even realizing it. I was thoroughly convinced of my ability to make it on my own and live according to “my” will. “I make my own rules” and all that crap. So much so that I became blind to everything that didn’t work in my life. To all of the dead ends that I kept running into. I thought that I was in control, but the chaos in my life told a different story.

I’m giving you a somewhat simplified version of what happened here. If you go back far enough in my life, you will find a person who completely let his animal side rule over him. At that time, I didn’t reflect much upon my behavior at all. I had to at least care about living a good life, to realize how hard it is to do so while having no firm guidelines. And while still trying to pursue my ego’s wants, wishes, goals and desires. Let alone starting to discern what comes from the ego and what comes from that which is true inside of me. In other words what comes from the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 

I would say that what got the ball rolling was that I found a certain peace in the Bible and Christianity. I honestly don’t remember exactly where I felt it first, but it was a few years ago. Back then I didn’t know really what Christianity was. So the most I had to go on was a feeling. I had read the Bible and some of the mystics. But the message had not sunk in in a way that made the faith really come alive on a personal level. In my day to day life. And quite frankly, other types of spirituality seemed more exciting. So after a while I started drifting.

Here I feel the need to interject that if Christianity doesn’t excite you, you need to go deeper into it. Invite the Holy Spirit in. Once you’ve been touched by the Holy Spirit you will have all the excitement that you need.

Anyway… At some point, probably a few years after the initial encounter with God’s peace I started noticing that Christianity and the Bible seemed to bring some distance between me and the financial hardships that me and my wife were facing. They didn’t seem to matter as much when I really felt that I had God and Jesus to lean on. I also experienced more of the peace that I just mentioned. 

At the place where I am right now, I’ve found an intellectual understanding of why, which was something that I lacked when this journey started. This intellectual understanding is growing every day.

My blogging has helped me to gain more clarity, even though I wasn’t completely blind to my situation when I started. A funny thing is that God more or less told me to start this blog. And even though I haven’t had much success with it, writing down my experiences and thoughts about them have been a huge help for me. What priorly was an incoherent mess started to become ordered. Patterns emerged. And from these patterns followed insights. Some insights have been personal. Others have seemed more universal. 

Why can’t I have things simply “my” way? Because when I say “my” way I really mean “my ego’s way”. And my ego is inevitably and undeniably slave to my lower nature. To my animal instincts. And the animal instincts are ruled by cause and effect. The world provides a stimulus and I react. Just like animals do. And so I fall victim to temptation over and over again. And today the world produces so much stimulus.

The more I live according to my own rules, the more frustrated and helpless I feel. The more I surrendered to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the more happy, light and free I feel. 

In light of what I just said, telling myself that I’m free while living in the sorry state of “my” will, is the worst kind of self-deception possible. “My” will will always have me chasing after the wind. My ego tells me that I want empty gratification of the senses, admiration, success, be looked upon as smart, insightful etcetera. This while I really know that the only road to joy and peace is to live close to God and focus on what God says is important.

The Bible is pretty clear on what will give me happiness, peace, joy etcetera: Loving God. Loving my neighbor such as myself. Non-judgment. Stay faithful to my wife and loved-ones. Not worrying so much about the troubles of this world, but instead keeping my eye on the eternal. Being humble and letting go of pride. And so on.

Learning to live this way takes time though. Especially if you, like me, have a lot of baggage.

The thing with the Bible is that the more you study it and see your life through it, the more it starts to make sense. The more I study the Bible, the more the line “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1 Corinthians 3:19) makes sense.

By looking inwardly I’ve learned a few things. I have several wills inside of me that compete with each other. Sometimes I decide on one thing. But then I talk myself into justifying the opposite. Not because of some new information. But because I argue myself into believing something else. Most of the time something that is in line with my lower nature and more instant gratification. And then I realize that I suffer because of it - or make other people suffer sometimes - and so I’m back to my original intent.

And so it goes. Even though I know this, I keep falling into the same traps over and over again.

No matter what school of psychology you look at it from, whether it’s psychoanalysis, neurology, cognitive psychology or behaviorism, you arrive at the same conclusion. We are not in control of ourselves. We usually don’t know exactly what we want or why we want it. And if we do, the reasons are probably not what we tell ourselves. And our emotions, habits, irrational desires and all of the things in the world that prey on them cause us to act in all kinds of strange manners. Manners that we explain away afterwards, because of some strange need for things to make sense when they really don’t. 

It may take a while if you haven’t understood this yet. But if you search and study these things with an open mind, you can not fail to realize that there is a God, and that this is a personal God. You will also realize that there is some sort of spiritual reality and that there is a divine order to things, ordained by God. 

In light of the above, we have a choice to make. Do we want to continue following our own wills and ge trapped by the world? Or do we freely want to submit our wills to God’s will? The God who loves us, always wants what’s best for us and is infinitely wise and powerful. 

If we realize that this might be something worth doing, we do it, once we’ve found God, by reading God’s word and works by those that try to help us understand it. And last, but certainly not least, we do it by asking God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit to guide us. 

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Enlightenment is to truly see the ego for what it is, part 2

In the end, I’m alone with myself and God. I can fool others and I can use their perception of me to fool myself that I am something that I am not. But I still am what I am and God knows all of it. God sees everything with total clarity. This has to be understood deeply and not just with the intellect. It cannot just be thought up by the intellect. The understanding of it has to be worked into the core of our being.

Enlightenment is to truly see the ego for what it is, part 1

I’m not there. But I know that this is what enlightenment is. How could it be otherwise? As long as little me manages to sneak in its little needs for praise and approval, I don’t see clearly. As long as little me distorts my vision with its petty desires and wishes, I don’t see clearly. As long as I lie to myself about the inner workings of little me, I don’t see clearly. When we see the ego clearly, we can finally truly make room for God.

God is God

You don’t make an effort to do, think and say the right things and avoid the wrong because you are afraid of God’s punishment or because you want a reward from God. You do it because God is God. You know who God is. But do you really consider what this means? Do you really feel deep in your heart what it means to have the omnipotent, omnipresent, eternal creator of the universe with you all the time, in all that you do, say and think?

Short on prayer part 2

Happy New Year!

When we pray, we need to fully comprehend that God listens.

We don’t need to find the right words. God already knows what we want to say. We do, however, need to pray with sincerity. Sometimes - often in my case - prayers are just empty words. But when we pray with sincerity, we know that God listens and that God hears every little infinitesimal grain of insincerity. He still hears. He still listens. But what we say doesn’t mean anything.

When we pray with sincerity, things that we have hidden from ourselves will come to the surface. It gets brought into the light of God so that he can heal it.

My choices

I’m almost forty now. Throughout my life, I’ve mostly lived under the illusion that I’ve made choices, while I’ve really let life happen to me. Looking back at major decisions in my life, my motivations have almost never been what they have seemed. I’ve made decisions based on wishful thinking, an urge to make reality something that it’s not, wrongful labelings of people, events etcetera, fueled by a bunch of confused ides. 

Often, I’ve acted against my better judgment because I’ve been scared of doing what I somewhere have known to be right. 

I’ve often seen this in others, but been unable to see it in myself. Now, I still see it in others. I even see more of it. But I don’t judge anymore. At least not when I’m conscious of my thought processes. Because I know that I do the same things. 

The most common thing that I see in others, probably because I am not able to see their thought processes, is decisions following something like “I want this, so I’m going to have it without thinking of the consequences or what I’m committing to.”

The thing is, that in some strange way, my life has not turned into a total disaster. I’m not content with everything in it. But I’ve learned quite a lot and I can probably use my knowledge to make better decisions in the future.

Refusing cynicism

It’s very easy to become cynical in the world. It’s easy to think that everyone is just out to serve themselves and that authenticity drowns in the hunt for profit. It’s especially easy to think this of public figures. But what do we really know? Sure, sometimes we do know. But when we, if we're being truly honest with ourselves about what we can know for sure, conclude that we truly don't know, isn’t it better to assume good, honest, authentic intentions, when we really have nothing to base our judgment on? Isn’t this ultimately a question about whether we believe the world and other people to be fundamentally good or bad? And isn’t this ultimately a question about what we truly believe about ourselves? Maybe it is even a question of what we believe about God.

Freedom in God or slavery to the ego

It took a long time for me to see this. Just with so many things in life, I was blind to what was in front of me. But from what I can tell, there are really just these two options.

What I’ve come to realise is that as far as I’m concerned, I live in a very confused state. And I bet it’s the same for other people as well. My blog is probably a good place to start if you want to understand this confusion better, as it is basically what I’m analysing in my blog posts.

I have several wills inside of me compete with each other. Sometimes I decide on one thing. But then I talk myself into justifying the opposite. Not because of some new information. But because I argue myself into believing something else. Most of the time something that is in line with my lower nature and more instant gratification. And then I realise that I suffer because of it - or make other people suffer sometimes - and so I’m back to my original intent.

And even though I know this, I keep falling into the same trap over and over again.

I think that I’ve unpacked something of what is going on here. I’m not a psychologist, so I don’t know all the technical details when it comes to this. And what I’ve understood so far, can be summed up in a couple of sentences. We have our unconscious, that many psychologists, mainly psycho-analytics and the likes, governs most of our behaviour. In it, There we have a mess, consisting of our neurosises, our unconscious, repressed urges, wants, wishes, needs and desires. Then we have a neurological cocktail of neurological-transmitters in our heads and bodies, that call us to do certain actions. 

Then we have the details of the situation itself. Did you know that whether a criminal gets pardoned or not, is heavily influenced by what time and day of the week it is? Or that our answers to questions concerning well-being or the belief about someone’s character, is heavily influenced by the words and the order of the words in the questionnaire? What other unknown factors influence us in our lives? Could, for example, a background noise, that we have shut out from our consciousness, cause us to make a decision that we otherwise would not have made?

Furthermore, we have our habits. These habits are, on a neurological level, connections between different neurons, whose strength depends on several factors, mainly how long we have engaged in the habit, what emotions and memories that are connected to it, how much we focus on the habit mentally and how much importance we attach to it. 

I might have missed some important factor, but you get the idea. If we have formed the habit of reacting a certain way in a certain situation, you are will likely react in that way, unless some other factor compels you to do otherwise. One such factor, the most important one I would say, is becoming conscious that we are reacting in a habitual way. 

But even if we do realise that we are acting in a habitual way, we still have all of the other factors to consider. To try to be aware of even a fraction of all of these factors, is enough to go insane. Let alone to try and actually figure out what we are supposed to do with them. 

This could lead to the, in my view, pessimistic idea of determinism, which basically denies free will, even if there are many different philosophies about it, that view the free will, the lack and degree of lack thereof, in different ways. I will discuss the philosophy a bit more in future posts, but I will not talk that much about the specific kinds of determinisms that exist. What I find important, is what can actually be said of free will contra determinism and how this can be related to our spiritual lives.

Knowing that there is a God, that this God is personal, and that some sort of spiritual reality and at least strongly believing that there is a divine order to things, ordained by God, I can basically find only two appropriate responses to this. The first is to try to get a closer relationship with this God. And the other is to find out what this divine order is and try to live by it. These two choices can be made freely. If we trust that God is Almighty, and that he wants what’s best for us, we should also be able to make these choices knowing that they well produce the best results both for ourselves and others. 

In return, we will receive a compass. Not one that we will be able to always follow, or even read correctly. But it is something tangible. And if we have faith in God and his will, we can trust that it does its best to guide us right, while at the same time respecting our free will. And with time, we might get better at following it. 

Financial advice from a man with financial problems

Why should you take financial advice from someone with financial problems? The answer to that question is most of the time that you shouldn’t. But if you also have problems with money, and you are still lying to yourself and others about money, I’m at least one step ahead of you. 

I admit that money matter to me. I do my best to accept where I currently am. I try my best to be happy and grateful for what I’ve got and to see that all that ultimately matters, is my relationship with God. But I admit that financial problems is a huge stress factor in my life. 

So, this is what I've realised:

I want to have resources to really help other people. Not just help others in similar financial situations as my own to put some band-aid on huge wounds. Band-aid that burns huge holes in my own pocket. 

I want to go abroad on vacation every year. I want to travel abroad to meet interesting people and get mesmerised by all the beautiful places in God's creation. Today I can’t. And when I finally can afford going on vacation, I constantly think about what everything costs and feel bad when I spend more money than I’ve planned. Which has happened on exactly every vacation I’ve ever been on throughout my adult life. Simply put, I want to be able to go on vacation without having financial stress constantly in the back of my mind.

I want to go to the store and just buy the things that I want, without looking at the price of the items. 

I want to never have to worry about bills ever again. 

I don’t want to have to check my bank-account several times every month, to make sure that there is enough money there.

I want to be able to save money every month.

I want to have a buffer.

I don’t want to have to worry about unforeseen expenses. 

I don’t want to argue with my wife and other people about money.

I recognise that all of these things cause stress in my life in a way that significantly lowers my happiness. This does not mean that I shouldn’t try to meet my situation with as much acceptance that I can muster up. It’s a good thing to learn to bear our circumstances and to do our best to focus on the positives instead of the negatives. 

But what it does mean, at least for me, is that I need to face reality as clearly as I can and, to the best of my ability, try to find out what it takes to create a financial situation that I’m truly content with and the do it to the best of my ability. 

This, I believe, is true for most people that don’t live in an ideal financial situation. To admit and accept these things, I believe is sound financial advice, even if it doesn’t come from someone who has “made it”.

A flat tire

The other day I was late for work because of. Since I work for a staffing company, I fill out my own time. Of course I had to adjust for the 25 minutes that I was late, which I did. But before this obvious decision was made, a whole process happened inside my head. I thought: “Well, I’m ahead with my work assignments, so there was no harm being late. No one is going to check my time report or care anyway, as long as I’ve done my job. Besides, being late looks bad. And if anyone, against all odds, decides to check, I can just tell them that I made a mistake. Since it’s easy to just click ‘ok’ on the time report without adjusting anything, no one is going to believe otherwise. Especially since I’m a model employee.”

My thoughts were of course not as clear as they are now, when I put them into words. But this was basically the process that took place, before I overrode it with the principle of not being wilfully dishonest, that I try to follow to the best of my ability.

The interesting thing here, is that I was only partially conscious of my mental process. And had I not remembered the honesty-principle, I might have listened to the other voice. In this case, the chance was very little. But it could have happened. In a less clear case, maybe I would have not remembered my guideposts. Maybe I wouldn’t even have known what behaviour I let slip by my radar.

When what we say and do don't match

I’m a little bit angry today. I can’t get into detail about what sparked this anger. But as with much of the anger that we experience, only a tiny bit comes from the experience or situation that triggered it. And, again as with much of our anger, at the core, I’m mostly angry with myself. 

I’m angry with myself for pretending that I don’t care about things that I do care about. I’m angry with myself for talking about my intentions, but doing something completely different from what I say. I’m angry with myself for saying that I want one thing, but acting as if I want another thing.

In other words, I’m angry for lying to myself and others. I’m angry because I distort reality and create confusion for myself. I’m angry with others for doing the same. And a part of me wishes that I could neither see this in myself, nor in others. Mainly, I wish that I couldn’t see it in others. Because it only causes frustration. The obvious response is to ignore it in others and just work on fixing it in my own life. But it’s hard. God, please help me!

Pride part 1

It’s really so simple. Pride is the greatest sin. Because it makes us and not God responsible for our fortunes. And when we try to make it on our own, we suffer in one way or another. This is what’s important here: we are the ones that suffer from our pride. It’s easy to see this, when we see that we cannot do for ourselves, what God can do for us. We can only accomplish cheap imitations and trick ourselves into believing that it’s something magnificent. We were created to be beloved servants and not rulers or creators, except for when God truly rules and creates through us. And when he does, our ruling and creating is in itself nothing but servitude. As soon as we give ourselves credit, seek power for our own sake or seek the praise of others, we suffer. We suffer because we defy the will of God. But God is not the one that causes us to suffer. We suffer because we act against our own interest, which is something that we would see if we saw things from God’s perspective. We suffer because our attitude and actions are disharmonious. 

Short on prayer

I’ve realised that I can treat my experience of prayer in vastly different ways. In prayer as in no other practice, it has become clear whether I’m doing something heartfelt or not. If I’m there, if I’m really speaking to someone and if there  is any true meaning behind my words. I have often caught myself approaching prayer as just something I expect myself to do. I’ve used some nice words about gratitude, forgiveness, guidance or whatever. But I haven’t really been there. I haven’t really thought about what I’ve been saying. Often, I have been somewhere else in my thoughts. And I haven’t intentionally directed my prayer towards God.

I know that this type of absent-mindedness can be found in many of my activities. But as I said, I’ve seen it most clearly in prayer. Felt the difference between it and really being engaged in what I’m doing.

About the Blog

We want to help people that live every-day lives to live and grow together with God, every second of their lives, 24-hours per day.

This presentation will soon be changed to include David's wife and twin-flame Jessica, who is now also blogging with me. However, much that can be said about David can also be said about Jessica.

About David:

A few years ago, I realized that I was an absolute mess inside. In spite of having been engaged in loads of spiritual activities and self-searching, my thoughts were chaotic and uncontrolled, and I was to a large extent governed by my emotions. And I was still to a large extent a stranger to myself. The motifs behind my actions and words weren’t what I thought they were and my behavior was to a large degree unconscious. I even felt as if most of who I was, wasn’t really me and that a lot of what came out of my mouth lacked substance.

And the more I saw this mess inside myself, the more I started seeing it in other people. We are all God’s children. But we are broken. And I was more broken than most. In some ways, I still am. I also believe that my brokenness has a meaning. Because by nothing but unearned grace of God, I’ve been allowed to see my brokenness much more clearly than most people.

Because of this, I’ve decided that I want to do everything that I can to become whole again and help others do the same. My journey to become whole, so that none of my confusion, pride and self-deceit will stand between me and the love of my creator, and the insights that I gain along the way, is what I wish to offer. This is also a declaration of intent.

So, this is a blog about living in harmony with God’s creation. This means being our true selves. And this in turn means living in accordance with God’s will. By our own free will. Because we know intellectually, emotionally and spiritually that this is what we want. Not because of fear of punishment or the hope of rewards, but because God is perfect and the ultimate cause and meaning of life. And therefore there exists no better, more joyful life.

Finally, I believe that the only thing that stands between us and knowing God's will is our egos. Without the ego, we wouldn't need to read a single line to know God's will. But hopefully this blog can offer some food for thought, while you struggle with yours.