Day nine
Let go and let God.
“Miracles are habits and should be involuntary.
They should not be under conscious control. Consciously selected miracles can
be misguided.” T-1.1.5:1-3
The third step in twelve step programs such as
Alcoholics Anonymous says, “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over
to the care of God as we understood HIm.”
In the Our Father, we pray in part, “...Thy
kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven…”
It is this turning over our willfulness to God,
to Jesus, to the Holy Spirit, to our Higher Power that the shift from wrong
mindedness to right mindedness occurs and we let go and let God and in this
sense the miracle then is involuntary. We intentionally give up control and let
the Spirit work through us wherever that takes us.
If we think we know what we are doing, no matter
how well intentioned, we have maintained an illusion of control, and things can
be very misguided. The old joke is, “If you want to hear God laugh, tell God
your plans.”
The slogan in AA is “Let go and let God.” This
is the ultimate manifestation of humility to admit that on the path of the
Spirit we are not in charge and we ask the Spirit to work through us..
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