Returning to Childlike Trust in God's Will

So, spirituality is to return back to the innocence of the infant. And as part of the reversing process also, we can be at this stage where we are trying to read for clues in terms of 'What does God want from me?' So at least we've taken the reverse gear, reversing out of what has caused us so much trouble and returning to the innocence of trying to become the children who can remain in God's presence. And God has made it clear in all traditions that this innocence is a requirement if we are to live in His presence. So already it is good if you're starting to look for clues to say, 'I want to understand what God wants from me.' But if you keep going back to a stage where you don't even need to understand that, you only want to live with God and knowing that 'I just want to be with God and the rest is up to Him,' and I have full confidence in His way, in His love, in His life, in what He wants to do with me. So I don't need to know when my parent is going to feed me, when my parent is going to make me nap, when He's going to wake me up.

So this is the process of unraveling the human ego, learning how to live in complete trust of God, in surrender to God. So one tip along the way is that when things worry you, when things are concerns that we have taken on for ourselves—which we don't need to, but some of us are in the intermediate stage, I'm maybe in the beginning stage—but in the intermediate stage, things will still be of some concern to us because we've not fully learned to surrender. And those concerns, instead of taking to yourself, you must take to God. Isn't it? When you engage with the mind, you are trying to resolve things for yourself. Is it not? How? 'Okay, so what should I do? Option one is like this, this is the benefit, this is the cost. Option two is like this, this is the benefit, this is the cost.' We're trying to evaluate so much about how our life is meant to move. So that evaluation process we try to drop as much as we can and just bring everything that we would worry about and make it a prayer.

So if something is bothering you, make it an excuse to pray. Why do you want to have the conversation with yourselves? And this self is not the capital S Self. The conversation with the capital S Self would be perfect, but in this case, it is the ego playing the role of problem creator as well as the apparent resolver of situations, and that is not what we need to do.