*Lurkers Only*: Now's Your Chance

[aron]

Originally Posted by Intothewind

I feel like in many religious groups(the LC amongst them) enjoyment of this current life and the simple good things is really understated at best. Recently I had a talk with my sister about how Creation is apparently moaning and hoping for us to come together and bring the second coming about. I don't really get it to be honest. Holding a colored lens of this sort up to your eye will cause you to miss much of the joy and fascination of being alive and observing simple miracles.

Today I realize that this is what happens when you take someone else's will as your own. Their intention supersedes yours, and, importantly, God's. Conversely, when you find God's will for you, then you can have peace in everything, and can find enjoyment in everything.

When you are usurped by another's intention you also absorb their anxieties, dissatisfaction, and shame. Case in point, in the LCs whenever I met someone "in the world" I was trying to get them to come to the LC meetings. Now, whenever I meet people I can meet them where they are. I have no anxiety about their situation, because they are exactly where God wants them to be at that moment. Then, I accept them, and don't try to manipulate them. I have no goal. God has the goal. And they pick up on it and then God can flow, if He wants to. I am not manipulating the flow of God.

But if you take someone else's goal as your own (even if they cover it with a few Bible verses it is still theirs) then you get robbed of the enjoyment of life which is your birthright. So you end up transferring (their) dissatisfaction onto others, trying to get relief yourself.