More Promises . . . So Many Promises . . .

"We realize we know only a little.  God will constantly disclose more to you and to us.  See to it that your relationship with God is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others.  This is the Great Fact for us."

I have a young friend in my morning meeting who is trying to settle into a career.  She left a job selling alcohol to one selling energy drinks, a more appropriate position, granted, but she didn't enjoy the new work and decided to take an offer with a milk company not long after leaving her first job.  I relate to this Need for Speed, this desire to get more of what I want and avoid more of what is painful.  My  problem is that after I've prayed and meditated on a decision or action, after I've talked to friends and sponsors and trusted advisors, after writing about the choice I'm facing, I sometimes mistake my spiritual fitness - my perceived spiritual fitness - with some misguided guarantee that I'm going to get what I want and avoid what I don't want.  

Shee-it.  That's not how spirituality works.