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