If There's a Will Is There a Way?


I haven't blogged for the past week because I was in Pennsylvania at my sister's camp adjacent to the Allegheny National Forest. It was our annual family camp, but now that the kids are grown and working there wasn't much family there.

I went for a short walk through the hemlock trees by the cabin. It was beautiful. And calming. And a chance to pray. I thanked God for the beauty around me. Then, as in nearly all my prayers, I asked God to help me do his will. "Please, show me your will for me and help me do it."

Just then I got a text message on my phone. It was Mykayla, a young woman I befriended the past several years. I wrote about her in my book. (I recommend it for those in recovery or who want to be in recovery, https://www.amazon.com/Corking-Bottle-Day-Day-Guide/dp/B0CD9L6P8Z) I knew the family when MyKayla was walking through their house still in diapers. We got reacquainted when she asked for help through Facebook in attending AA meetings from the recovery house where she was living at the time. Her text was to request assistance moving to her apartment, the first place of her own she has ever had. Was that text message God's answer to my prayer, or just a coincidence? I don't know. Doesn't matter. I'm going to help her move this afternoon.

I feel strongly about the need to do God's will in our lifetimes. He sure doesn't do my will, so I guess I should do his. "Do not conform yourselves to the standards of the world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God." (The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, https://www.purposedriven.com/)

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