To Intend and to Act

"Make level paths for your feet so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed." Paul (Hebrews, 12:13)

The well-intentioned individual will reflect intensively on better avenues, nurturing superior ideals inclined toward goodness and justice.

Let us agree, meanwhile, that good intentions will have negligible results if they are not in tune with the sphere of immediate realities, in the correct action.

It is necessary to meditate in righteousness; however, it is crucial that we put it into practice.

Divine Providence encircles the path of the individuals with the material for eternal edification, making possible the construction of those "level paths" that Paul of Tarsus made reference to. A similar accomplishment on the part of the disciple is indispensable because, pursuing his paths, the lame souls follow. The prisoners of ignorance and evil crawl as best as they can, alongside the margins of the services of superior order, and every now and then they approach the faithful servants of the Christ, proposing measures and activities in accordance with their inferior mentality. Only those who construct straight paths can escape their subtle assaults, defending themselves and also offering to them new basis, so that they will not completely deviate from the Divine Designs.

Always apply your good intentions, to the realistic practices so that your good work is illuminated with love, and your love does not become an orphan of good deeds. Accomplish this for yourself, as you need to evolve, and do it for those who seek you and who are still limping.

XAVIER, Francisco Cândido. Our Daily Bread. By the Spirit Emmanuel. Spititist Alliance for Books, 2003. Chapter 86.