That is what God wanted… God’s will
The course of the meditation: I can sit in my room, gather myself together and stand for a while in front of God who is present before me. Then look from one thing to another around me and on me and just say: „You gave this to me.“ Look at the positive and negative situations and say: ‘ That is what I do not resign you wanted.’ Think of desperate situations and know: ‘That is how You lead to good.’ To think and say to God: ‘ That is how you liked it, it is good in that way. I agree to observe your world. I accept it…“I do not resign, but I creatively accept it with God. I can also go for a walk through the city, the village, nature and at everything and every encounter with man say: „You allowed this and you wanted it that way. I trust you. All of that is your world, not mine. You lead everything perfectly to my happiness.“ To experience it calmly, lightly, relaxed. I will suddenly feel like I am becoming free and how everything can change for the better. Or, how everything becomes friendly to me. I will thank God and – live his will!
The world existed before us. The generation we live in has found cities, traditions, schools, weapons, the sick and hospitals, camps and prisons, courts and lawyers, religions, the Church and the clergy, language, books and art, songs and cries, apartments, clothing and footwear, cars, food and drink, industry, agriculture and seamanship, prayer, swearing, birth and death, protests, revolutions, truces and forgiveness.
We have entered into something that had already existed before us. Where did it all begin? Who is the first author of everything? Who took care of us all? Obviously, the originator and sustainer of everything is God. He knew the good and the evil that would happen and he let it all be. He leads it all. All this is just one phase towards perfection. That is not the last word. He leads everything.
Do we trust his leadership? We entered his world. We are not masters, but guests on earth. God has called us to see his world and we have lived there for a while. We are not called to solve all the problems of the world on our own. We can do little on our world. But with him…? Everything. The most important thing is to be in God’s will, in accordance with God’s plan for us and the world.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
