Sunday, January 8, 2012
-Will Made Easy
~ Rev. William M. Heller
What if you were to recognize the greatest thing you can do is the exact same thing that God Wills for you? What if you were to recognize God’s Will for you, and your Will for yourself, at the highest truth, are one? Today, we are here to realize it would be impossible for them not to be in full alignment. You are God’s complete divine creation. Any thought you have that is not in synch with that existence, that state of Being is an error. And any thought that this could ever be changed, by you or any circumstance in your life, is an error. Being God’s Divine Creation is your essential, fundamental truth; it is immutable, and it can never change.
Think of the line found in Genesis 1:27: “Let us make man in our image and our likeness.” The statement here speaks to the complete fullness of who you are. You are the Divine extension of God! You are God, complete! The problem is, we don’t see that, and we certainly don’t live our lives from that perspective, do we?
Here is the puzzle I’d plant with you, once again. I’ve said it before, and yet I can’t say it enough; you and I each need to be reminded of this. God is in the Creation business. How, or why, would God create anything but God? What would God Know, but complete perfection, complete wholeness, complete Divinity. This is the eternal truth; this is the meaning of Genesis 1:27.
Yet we don’t know this, do we? We don’t believe it, and as we look at our lives and the matters going on in our lives, we’re really hard pressed to believe this. That doesn’t matter though, because that belief we have does nothing to change this eternal law, this eternal truth, of who you are!
From our not believing this line, we have developed thought processes and living styles that, while appearing to forward our lives, have led to a thought system that detracts from us truly knowing and accepting this message. Our journey now, our mission, is to reverse this; to begin looking at our life as the opportunity to discover the Divinity within us; to claim this as our path, and to pursue this as our truth.
Enter the concept of Will. As God’s Divine extension, will is a natural attribute of you. More to the point, it is your Will that is driving forward everything you do in your life. Be it have a meal in a moment, ski down a slope, take a vacation, earn money in any given manner, raise a family, or become the President of the United States; your Will is the driving force underlying that intention. This can be so automatic that sometimes there will be no thought associated with it; instead you simply go forward doing something. Your will still underlies this action.
So, has anyone in here experienced failure? Has anyone found what they wanted didn’t occur as they had willed? Has anyone found themselves questioning themselves, and their will, their manner of making a choice? Have you found yourself going down a path, and even though you find it not working for you, you continue to dig a hole deeper?
Here is our will gone awry. Whatever the circumstances of a matter, we have not been able to redirect our will to a direction that enables us to discover further our completeness, our divinity, our reality as God’s Divine Creation, God’s extension.
Today’s title is “Will made easy.” By easy, I am referring to the ability to discover our Will, and the ability to apply our Will to forward our life. For in so doing, we find ourselves touching grace, experiencing a greater sense of peace within our lives, and with those within our life.
What is our will to do? What is our will to pursue at any point in our life? How does our will play out in the decisions we make, what we move toward? We make this easy by looking for one expression: that of love! Ask yourself: what is the means by which I experience a deeper sense of love in a situation? What direction brings love to myself, and to others I am dealing with in a moment? While the question might not take this specific format, I suggest our being pointed in this direction with whatever we’re dealing with, is bringing our Will in alignment with God’s Will!
This is the choice we have throughout our daily activities. This is the manner to achieve the greater sense of peace and joy in our lives; a greater sense of direction, of contribution, of going forward.
I’m in the process of preparing a memorial service for Maurice LeFreneure. Maurice, or Frenchy as he was called, is Linda Dayton’s brother, and he provides a wonderful example of which I’m speaking. Frenchy made a name for himself in the Atlanta area through his building up the youth soccer program in northern Atlanta. A floundering program when he joined, Frenchy built up the program, and used it as a means to teach his kids; to prepare them for success, not only in soccer, but in life.
Color of skin, or economic status played no role in his program. Instead, maturity, fun, and enthusiasm were the drivers.
One of his kids, David Paridice, is now a Professor of Finances at Florida State University. From and extensive testimony David prepared, I quote the following brief paragraph:
Discipline, dependability, respect, teamwork, confidence, mentoring, a love of the game and grace. He was a positive influence dozens of boys who have become good men. It is not a bad legacy. It’s actually pretty scary to think that everything you really needed to learn about life, you learned from Frenchie, isn’t it? Can anyone doubt that Frenchie’s life was well lived? We should all try to be a force that brings half as much good into the world.
Frenchy spent a good part of the last half of his life building a successful soccer community for North Atlanta. Color of skin, or economic status played no role in his program. Instead, maturity, fun, and enthusiasm were the drivers.
For Frenchy, the soccer program was his mission, his will, his journey. It was the form in which his love was expressed! It was the manner in which he made a difference in other’s lives. And it was the manner in which he experienced love and connection.
For those of you as parents, what is the difference between raising your children from a space of allowance and love, and the need to control each aspect of their life? My guess is you’ve had the experience of both, and have seen the corresponding results of either direction within your relationship with them.
What is the essence of this message? Whatever it is that you Will to do, I maintain that if love is ingrained within the effort, you are in alignment with the Will of God for you, and in alignment with the allness of life.
-Rev.Bill
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