In Reply to: "Highest Will" and accomplishment posted by Laura on September 22, 2003 at 04:06:51:
Someone recently quoted Mother Teresa in one of their posts: "We can do no great things -- only small things with great love."
For me, when I left the Family, one of the biggest discoveries, was that the world is not an evil system full of ravening wolves that I was surely going to devoured by. By making friends with people with whom I work, by getting to know normal everyday people who make up man's society, all these people that used to be there just for me to collect money from.
I've found out what God's true family is. Now that I can learn to be one of them and I'm free from the delusion of being specially called and chosen in the role of a saviour, because some day "in the midst of antichrist great tribulation their eyes will be opened and they will know that a prophet has been among them" hence they'll be flocking to me and all the other true followers of David (puke) for the answers.
Now a days, to feel a sense of accomplishment, I don't need much. Mother Teresa's quote doesn't say the small things we do are going to produce great monumental earth shaking changes. It just says small things, it doesn't need to be anything more than that.
The Family thrives on self righteous presumption. You know God's will for everyone around you, and everyone you come into contact with, because you've hear from God. That's why it so difficult to be around Family members, there's no room for discussion with the person who's saying, THE LORD showed me. (Not only Family members do this but they're champions at it.) Achieck talks about that smug Family attitude.
God's will for me is what I'm going to do today, I'm out the door in a few minutes to meet a friend for coffee. After I want to look for materials for teaching children English, last year I was only teaching adult classes, now I also have 3 young learner classes. I want to check out the printer in the teacher's room at the school to see if it got fixed. I'll have a chance to exchange smiles and greetings with the secretaries, maybe even talk to one or two of them, or another teacher, or my supervisor. I will prepare dinner today, talk with my wife, I'll pray in the meditative way I pray now for myself and for my children. I'll exercise, and I'm going to do some extra things that I want to do just for myself. I'll have a measure of happiness today I'm sure. I might have unexpected disappointments or even calamities, which I'll have to accept and manage. And that's it, that for me is God's will: to be as normal and as decent a person as I can be in this big family of human society which He has made me a part of.