I wonder

if you have ever had this experience: one in a while, not often, but now and then, I get the urge to do a kindness for someone. Now, I know that's not a bad thing itself, but it struck me the other day how it happens. It's just an urge that I can't shake. The thought of the need, or perceived need, just takes over my prayer time and my thoughts. It's not a voice in my head saying 'do this' or anything. (3 out of 4 voices in my head agree with that. )

No, it's just the 'knowing' that it's something that I need to do, not something that would be 'nice' to do, or that I 'should' do, but that I have to do. And I don't know what the receiver needs it done for, just that I need to do it.

I don't know how you hear God's voice, but I like to think that this is the Holy Spirit guiding me to do what God would want done. And even if it were to cost me time, effort or money I need to do it. Or perhaps it's a prompting by one of God's angels, my poor, overworked Guardian Angel, for instance. Please note that I'm not suggesting that I'm a good person, or anything special here. I think we all hear God's voice somehow, and try to do the right thing. I'm just commenting, is all.

Anyway, who knows? I try to do these things, and don't try to figure them out. I don't always do them, but at the same time the need to do them is so insistent that it's difficult not to. Now, I'm nowhere close enough to God to know for certain, so I have to go with my gut feeling on it. I know good works doesn't save anyone, but good works can make the world, or at least my tiny little part of it, and perhaps someone else's tiny little part of it, better. And that's part of establishing God's kingdom on earth, I think.

At least that's what all 4 of the voices in my head tell me...