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is one of those bon mots that i find more than a little abhorrent these days. the reason it chafes me so, is because it anthropomorphizes GOD and i just am not anywhere close to being there, any more. i understand quite well the concept of making plans but not planning outcomes, but to surrender those outcomes to a capricious, mysterious, and seemingly uninvolved POWER, is something i am unwilling to do. the next step down that path is predestination and fate, which are even worse notions for me to adopt. so i plod along, making plans, planning contingencies and letting go, after all, any or all of my plans are subject to be altered by exigent circumstances.
moving on, my “plan” for today, is a trip to the grocery store, a visit to the dentist, work from the local smoke-filled room and a HOA meeting tonight. if none of those plans comes to fruition, i will certainly be okay, as i see what i “want” to do may not align with what i “need” to do. of course there are all sorts of activities that surround those various plans, including working out, doing my job and taking a trip up the hill to see my Mom and let her dawgs run around her yard a bit. do i know or even care if any or all of that is part of GOD's plan for my day? no i do not! i do not walk through my day, waiting for signs of what to do next, fearing that i am going cross some unmarked boundary and plummet into eternal damnation or even worse a humdrum and boring way to live. i have a very good understanding of “good and evil,” and certainly do not need any sort spiritual advisor telling me how to live my life. that includes my peers, some of whom walk around making pronouncements and judgements about what “we” should be doing and who “you” are. OOPS, there i go again!
anyhow, on this day, i will live a life of active recovery to the best of my ability, starting with stepping out into this frigid morning and getting some miles under my belt. i certainly do not know what GOD's will is for me today, and frankly i do not really walk around wondering if i am in that will, at all. what i do know, is that if i live the principles i espouse, chances are, i am living in that will, just for today.

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