By
H. Kent Craig
Between the absolute predetermination of God’s Will
and the absolute anarchy of man’s will lies the real, perfect middle-ground
balance point of “Grand Will”. God gives us this because He doesn’t give a shit
about us to love us enough to give us free will agency of thought, action and
deed. How can God love us enough not to give a shit about us to allow us, as
His five-year-old children, to put our hands on the hot stovetops of life?
Because that is how we learn and of course He knows this and if He knows we
being stubborn, willful children if we don’t learn by experience then He can
talk to us until He’s proverbially blue in the face and we still wouldn’t have
learned. Because we are souls incarnate into human form this time around in
this plain of existence, we must learn the lessons we need to learn via
outside, external stimuli and sensori.
Before we come to this life, we more or less decide with
God’s guidance and counsel the lessons we need to attempt to learn to progress
on to the next level and part of the learning process is the ability and
permission to challenge the lessons that our teacher, God, presents to us. If
we don’t have the free will agency, the freedom to question by thought, word
and deed what’s presented to us, then our little-brain-dedness won’t be able to
take in the results of those lessons presented and we won’t have learned, and
yes, coming back again to repeat a lesson is a bear, considering all those
future incarnations we’ll all have to go through to learn our lessons needed. I
don’t know about you, but I hate repeating any class!
God didn’t make us come here anymore than He makes us stay
here. He created us because He loves us. He allows us to come here because He
loves us. He allows us to leave and hopefully move on to the next lesson in our
curriculum because He loves us. And, if we’re lucky, He allows us to sit at His
throne for eternity, once we’ve learned the things we needed to learn to be
able to be a true child, a true lamb of His flock.
God love us enough to give us permission to royally screw-up
big-time and yes, to beyond royally succeed big-time as well, though His
definition of success and our personal definition of success can be and
sometimes are two completely different things.
Only by praying/meditating/communing with Him on a daily
basis can we begin to get even an inkling of what His/our personal/the
mutually-agreed upon plan of action and life-course for us actually is. Once we
begin to get an idea of what He would like for us to do to learn and grow and
start to understand, maybe a little at least, why He and we agreed to be born
when and where we were physically born to this time around, then we can start
the process of correctly learning all the parts of the lesson we need to learn
this time around, some of those parts being negative, some positive and some
completely neutral in consequence but all necessary.
Whether we have conscious awareness that our lifepath follows
that middle-ground balance of doing what He wants us to do and what we think we
want to do, it doesn’t matter, it just doesn’t matter, we follow that Grand
Will path of our lives regardless.
Everytime a child falls of their bicycle and skins their
knee, their parent cries too. Everytime we stumble and fall, God cries too.
Visualize that for a moment: each time we try something necessary and fail and
get hurt, God truly does shed a tear for us. But He knows that is how we, His
children, learn, must learn.
Everytime a child creates a perfect fingerpainting of a
perfect sunset with their parents and themselves in the foreground of it, their
parent is please, is so happy that they thought enough, loved them enough to
spend the time and energy to create such a selfless expression of love to give
to them. Everytime we pray, even if we pray for silly things that He couldn’t
care less about such as us winning the lottery, He is happy because we’ve taken
the time to actually create something, a prayer of and for communication with
Him which we give to Him, the giving pleasing Him.
Everytime we have a single conscious thought, or not, do a single conscious act, or not, we create something, we create an act, a moment of Living In The Grand Will. When we begin to start figuring out that is by conscious choices and that all acts and non-acts have very real and definite consequences often multiple simultaneous consequences on and of many levels and shadings of personal responsibility all of which are needed for our growth as perfect souls of God, then, yeah, we tickle, amuse, and please God because we’re doing what He creates us for in the first place, to be His children, God being the most loving and perfect of parents.