What does God want from me?
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How can I find the path God has planned for me?
What does God want from me?
Sometimes, when I feel close to God, I get the impression that he might be asking something special of me—perhaps something difficult, something that demands obedience. But that's a misunderstanding. God doesn't meet me with demands, but with love. He looks at me with loving kindness, he is close to me, he lives in me. I used to wish for a powerful voice from heaven to command me: "Do this or that!" And I would have submitted myself devotedly.
But that's not the point.
True spirituality leads to freedom. God wants—as the Bible tells us—that everyone should be helped and that we come to know the truth (1 Tim. 2:3). And Paul warns: "Christ has set us free—do not be enslaved again!" (Gal. 5:1)
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You are a child of God
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
from: Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, quoted from Nelson Mandela’s inaugural speech
Know yourself to know God
“For whosoever would come into God’s ground, into His inmost being, must first come into his own ground, into his own inmost being; for none may know God who hath not first known himself.” — Sermon 54b (Meister Eckhart ca.1260-1328)
The hardest task is often not to seek God, but to truly know oneself – without evading oneself, without deceiving oneself. Jesus speaks of the greatest commandment: to love God and one's neighbour as oneself.
Love is at the heart of the Bible's message.
A frequently quoted saying attributed to Francis de Sales (1567-1622) is:
„If your heart wanders or suffers, gently bring it back to its place, and softly return it to the presence of God. And even if you have done nothing else in your life but repeatedly bring your heart back—though it strayed each time after you returned it—then your life has indeed been well lived.”
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Listen carefully: What is truly calling you?
When you hear an inner voice calling you, ask yourself: Is it truly the voice of God, speaking with love? Or is it the voice of an inner critic, a taskmaster, an unfulfilled desire to be seen or to do something special?
To discern this, it helps to share thoughts with others, to search together and to practice the Discernement of Spirits, as Ignatius of Loyola calls it. And when you're sure – then dare to go! Take your path!
God weaves a golden thread through the red thread of your life. What he wants from you will not feel unfamiliar —for he has been creating you and knows you better than you know yourself.
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