LAW OF THREE (45) Not my will but yours.

LAW OF THREE (45)

NOT MY WILL BUT YOURS.

"We human beings naturally try to achieve satisfaction in all things through our own autonomous

effort and control. This is just as true in our search for spiritual fulfilment as it is in the rest of life.

We may yearn to "let go and let God" but it usually doesn't happen until we have exhausted our own efforts." Gerald May

St. Teresa of Avila. says "el centro del alma es Dios" (The centre of the soul is God"). St. Teresa reminds us that God shares with us all the tribulations of our life.

The discovery of the hidden immanent presence does not come through our own efforts.  It comes when we have exhausted all our own efforts. It may come over when we realise that nothing we have been trying works and that we need help.

"Let go and let God" requires change of signs in the triad. From acting as an initiating force we act as receptive force.  From closing our hands to opening our hands. From feeling proud of our achievements to feeling humbled by our shortcomings.

God's evolution in us* needs receptive cooperation. It needs letting God do in us and through us. It requires letting go our own autonomous efforts to accomplish our aims and allowing God accomplish his own aims in us.

This interdependence of God and Man makes us co-creators or as my old hermit friend puts it:

"God Is but cannot Do. Man can Do but Is not. So God Does in Man and Man Is in God.

An "interabading" realisation which requires the dimension of eternity to manifest.

* "God will bring people and events into our lives and whatever we may think about them they are designed for the evolution of HIS LIFE in us." Thomas Keating