God loves us so much that he gives us free will.  Duly so, he will never intrude upon our own free will.   We think we are free because we have free will.  We are right… free to choose our destiny, free to choose as we please, and God loves us any way we choose.

God’s will is grand, ultimate, absolute and infinite.  Why do we resist God’s will?  We are afraid of what will happen to us.  We are afraid because we do not have the faith or the trust to completely allow God’s will to have ascendency in our lives.

My challenge to you is to give your will up to God’s will.  The gift of our own free will is the ultimate gift of faith and trust, as well as being the most powerful and humbling gift we can give.  

What happens when you invite God’s will?  Did you think you could plan things any better?  What would you worry about, that it might not turn out the way you wanted it to?  If you are still wrestling with this, you have not ever fully released your will to will God’s will.

If you have ever given your will up to God’s will you know that what happens when God’s will is moving – - it  is infinitely more potent that any plans you could make.   The movement and manifestation of his will is like a huge cosmic mosaic that moves like a fine watch – moving each piece into place so elegantly and smoothly,  that when you experience it, you are awestruck.  So there is no place for fear, only trust.  Just know that the One who created all the infinitude of the universe, is so willing to love you, and overcome your every trial – just for receiving your consent to allow His will in your world!

I challenge you to walk the walk of trust in the power of God’s will which will lay the road down before you, and move events around you so smoothly you will forget it is God’s will.  Stay in tune with God’s will simply by offering freely your will to will God’s will.

“Now, I have the rest of my life to live with the Cloud of Unknowing, The Cloud of Forgetting, and the Apophatic approach of allowing God to come to me through my own intent and surrender so that he might have an experience of me and the world I live in.”

To answer your question as to what I meant by “come to me through my own intent” is this:

Our intention is our free will in motion.

If I intend to open myself for God to be with me, then I am surrendering to the idea of God being with me, or in other words, I am creating space through my intention to allow God to enter it.

Mostly our intentions take us to any place other than being with God, and we are probably not used to consciously focusing our intentions.

The practice of Centering Prayer as presented by Fr. Thomas Keating uses the phrase: the “intent to consent”.

I hope that helps to answer your question or at least assists you in asking another!