He
[The Great Spirit] only sketches out the path of life roughly for all the
creatures on earth, shows them where to go, where to arrive at, but leaves
them to find their own way to get there. He wants them to act
independently according to their nature, to the urges of each of
them. Lame Deer Lakota On
awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our
plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking,
especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or
self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental
faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our
thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is
cleared of wrong motives. In
thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to
determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an
intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't
struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have
tried this for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually
becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having
just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going
to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all
sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking
will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We
come to rely on it. Big Book pgs. 86 & 87
Grandfather, thank you. Thank you for the trail. Thank you for giving me the choice of how to follow that path.
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