Do not be conformed
to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may discern what is the will of God - what is good and acceptable and prefect.
Romans 12: 2
I had always assumed, without really thinking about it, that the “will of God” was one thing and it was good and acceptable and prefect. But surely no one thing can be all those things at once! The other day I played a shopping game with almost-three-year-old Eddie. There were a bunch of tiles scattered on the floor that had pictures of food on them and when you matched one up with something on your shopping list, you could put it in the cart. During my meditation time this morning it struck me that those three things are like the tiles - three different things, one good, one acceptable and one prefect. The AA program talks somewhere about God making us as perfect as He can given the conditions of any particular day and I like that a lot. It’s about discernment here - choosing between things - and one is not RIGHT and the other Wrong - or maybe the wrong ones have already been weeded out and so are not on these “tiles.” Any choice is ok between the good and acceptable and perfect, given the conditions of this particular day and this particular situation... The basic choice is always being conformed to this world or being transformed....
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