For all of us Jesus Youth - young and old, may this Jubilee year be a time to start afresh - to seek and do the will of God.
Reflect
Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Eph 4:22-24)
Meditate
The … sole purpose of our whole lives … is to do the will of God. Not the will of God as we might wish it, or as we might envision it, or as we think in our poor human wisdom it ought to be. But rather the will of God as God envisions it and reveals to us each day in the created situations with which he presents us. His will for us is the twenty-four hours of each day: the people, the places, the circumstances he sets before us in that time. Those are the things God knows are important to him and to us at that moment, and those are the things upon which he wants us to act, not out of any abstract principle or out of any subjective desire to “do the will of God.” No, these things, the twenty-four hours of this day, are his will; we have to learn to recognize his will in the reality of the situation and to act accordingly. We have to learn to look at our daily lives, at everything that crosses our path each day, with the eyes of God..
The plain and simple truth is that his will is what he actually wills to send us each day, in the way of circumstances, places, people, and problems. The trick is to learn to see that—not just in theory, or not just occasionally in a flash of insight granted by God’s grace, but every day. Each of us has no need to wonder about what God’s will must be for us; his will for us is clearly revealed in every situation of every day, if only we could learn to view all things as he sees them and sends them to us.
The temptation is to overlook these things as God’s will. The temptation is to look beyond these things, precisely because they are so constant, so petty, so humdrum and routine, and to seek to discover instead some other and nobler “will of God” in the abstract that better fits our notion of what his will should be. And that is the temptation faced by everyone who suddenly discovers that life is not what he expected it to be.
The answer lies in understanding that it is these things—and these things alone, here and now, at this moment—that truly constitute the will of God. The challenge lies in learning to accept this truth and act upon it, every moment of every day. The trouble is that like all great truths, it seems too simple.
(Excerpt from He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith by Fr Walter Ciszek SJ)
Act
On a daily basis, try and intentionally practice being aware of and doing the will of God as Servant of God Fr Ciszek presents in the above meditation. At the end of each day/week, share with a friend or cellmate how easy/difficult it is, and the graces and struggles in practicing this.