| So many, today, are desiring to be led by Divine | | | | taken. |
| guidance and intention, and seek to bring their lives into | | | | The soul that out of devotion and love aspires to a life |
| conformity with what God desires. These acts of love | | | | that is led, must learn how to override issues of doubt |
| and surrender are offered from a heart that is | | | | and of fear, including the fear of making a mistake. |
| increasingly open to love, both human and Divine, and | | | | Both attitudes often arise out of the soul's past history, |
| that seeks to create a life that serves the earth and | | | | rather than being relevant in the present. The soul, |
| the upliftment of humanity. | | | | having set aside these encumbrances, then moves |
| And yet even with a pure motivation, there are many | | | | forward in trust, allowing the heart to determine the |
| times when it is not clear that one is being led, many | | | | choices along the way, until something else that is |
| times when there are no markers or signs to pay | | | | unforeseen and unexpected, appears. |
| attention to and no clear path forward. At such times, | | | | This is the way of being led for many. It is a way of |
| the soul may fall into doubt or even despair, for life | | | | partnership and of grace whose foundation is trust. |
| continues on, and decisions must be made, often of a | | | | Trust must underlie the movement forward so that it is |
| very practical nature, and without guidance, the | | | | assumed that all is well and all is being watched over, |
| embodied soul may feel left entirely to its own devices. | | | | and that if one were in error, it would be made known |
| This predicament is common, for the way of being led | | | | to the surrendered self. The embodied soul, feeling |
| is not often continuous in its exterior manifestations, but | | | | often of little importance due to attitudes of separation |
| may offer clear insight and inspiration at points along | | | | arising out of past conditioning, and unaware of its own |
| the way, with the heart needing to traverse and guide | | | | Divine being and core, can be vulnerable to doubt and |
| the path through the intermediary zone between the | | | | to thinking it is alone, based on the idea that it is not |
| clearer markers. What the mind does not know, often | | | | important enough to be watched over. However, this is |
| the heart must discern, not through any conceptual | | | | not the truth of a guided life. In response to the request |
| knowledge, but through its own aversion or attraction | | | | to be led comes the attribute of blessing. And while |
| toward particular goals or directions. Thus, in the | | | | blessing may not appear as a clear action from a |
| absence of clear directives, and even in their presence, | | | | Divine source during certain phases of life, it always |
| the heart's resonance with a particular goal, person, | | | | includes the attribute of being watched over so that |
| situation, or plan can be a sure guide to the emerging | | | | one moves in a direction that is constructive and |
| path of the soul. | | | | fulfilling of one's soul purpose and of Divine intention. |
| Nevertheless, in circumstances where the heart's | | | | While it is also true that sometimes guidance appears |
| intuition must be relied upon exclusively, it is easy for | | | | and the cues are missed or ignored, this happens less |
| doubt to arise about acting correctly or about making | | | | frequently than one might think for hearts that are |
| mistakes. In such instances, it is essential to remember | | | | genuinely seeking guidance. Such a heart is ever |
| that God is aware of all movements that are made, | | | | listening for the clues that are whispered on the wind |
| and creates a steering effect through the pattern of | | | | of Divine breath, and is not likely to turn aside from |
| the heart's resonance, as much as through any other | | | | something that is breathed through the consciousness |
| principle for action or non-action. Also, there are areas | | | | more than momentarily. |
| of movement within life where the choice of which | | | | It is a matter, therefore, of asking to be led, of praying |
| direction to go in can be one of several possibilities, | | | | to have a pure heart and clear understanding so that |
| that is, in which there is no 'best' choice. At such times, | | | | one can know the road ahead, and of trusting that one |
| the soul must travel according to its own preferences, | | | | will be responded to at all times, even when no overt |
| and continue on its way until a defining moment occurs | | | | external direction may be seen. This is the blessing of |
| in which Divine intention swoops in with a clear motion | | | | leading a grace-filled and Divinely-inspired life, and it is |
| which then determines subsequent steps that will be | | | | the birthright and Divine heritage of every child of God. |