Lord, as I was lying awake earlier, I started to talk to You about prayer, but now I don’t remember what You said.
What I said was, you need to align your heart and your head, your feelings and your thoughts, with Mine in order to hear Me clearly. Otherwise, I can hear you but you can’t clearly hear Me, and that limits how I am able to help you. Once you can align your thoughts and your feelings, then your actions will follow. The steps you take then will literally be steps along My path for you.
So there is one path, right? Your Perfect Will?
Not in the way you think of it, like one narrow trail among many similar-looking trails, or one road in a busy center city of crisscross choices. Remember the book title, you make the path by walking? My Path for you is more like that. When you take steps while in tune with My Voice speaking to you, those steps will be based in love of others, in peace and in joy. The way you walk will be with integrity and compassion. You will be able to bless others along the way and will see your blessings clearly as they come to you.
I am not trying to test My children to see what they know, or at what point they will show weakness or fail. I am like a strong beacon, a homing-signal that you can test yourself against. You can feel or see when you are veering off course.
On My Path, of Love, of Joy, of Peace, of Faith, of Truth, of Goodness, there are many possible roads or trails for every person to follow and find fulfillment and joy. You can be sure of this: your perfect road, what you call My Perfect Will, is the one that gives you the most joy, the most fulfillment, the most peace, the most chances to love and be loved in return. To the extent that your chosen road does all these things consistently, you are walking in My Will for your life. To the extent your chosen road does not look and feel like this, is the extent to which you have veered or wandered off course. Stray too far off course and you will leave My Path completely. You will find yourself on a hard trail, consumed with bitterness, regret, envy, resentment, anger, strife and stress. You will catch yourself lashing out at others. You will begin to view the world around you as dangerous and full of enemies.
But all it takes, to find My Path again, is to examine your direction by lining it up with My Voice as a Beacon. Tune in once again. What do you hear? If you only hear the echo of your own loneliness, know that you have strayed far off My Path. Stop. Sit. Get your mind and body quiet. Let Me soothe your soul, refresh your spirit, bring a cup of cold water for your thirsty body. Le Me wash your tired, bruised, bleeding feet. Then let us walk, slowly, together, while I point out all there is of beauty, all there is to love, in your world. And look! See? See where you are? With Me. With Me beside you, guiding you once again. It is just that easy.