Will and the Freedom to Create our own Destinies

With free will we have the freedom to create our own destinies.
I take exception to the prevalent and popular notion that ‘everything happens for a reason.’ Implicit in this saying is that everything happens for a good reason. It is also heavily weighted on the side of determinism rather than free will.

Think of the most horrendous thing that could happen to you. In all honesty, do you really believe in your heart, that somehow this would be good for you? Yes, there is always a pearl to be found in tragedy but this is more along the lines of making the best of a bad situation. It does not make that bad situation inherently good because you were able to glean some wisdom from it.

So I think that we have to be very careful about adopting certain attitudes just because they sound good on the surface. On deeper inspection you may find a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’.

I much prefer the saying ‘we create our own reality’. Instead of passive victims we are now positioned as powerful creators. For indeed we are co-creators with life; we are not separate from it and victims of it.

We have been given the greatest gift, our free will, to be co-creators with Life, Omnipresence, God – the nameless Source of all that is. With such a powerful gift comes great responsibility for we are responsible for what we create in love or mis-create in fear.

We are free to co-create with the Omnipresent Source of all Life as long as our creations are for the higher good of others and ourselves. In other words we must create in harmony with the law of love or reap the consequences.

It is time to recognize that we are beings of free will and creators of our own destinies. Not victims, struggling to survive against all odds…

DBC