What Is Intention?
Intention (kavanah) = focusing the thought and the will on what you are doing.
Not just what you do,
but why, how,
and with what awareness you do it.
Simply put...
Everything we have done and are doing from a place of “receiving for ourselves”
requires rectification and clarification.
Intention = the connection between the heart, the mind, and the action.
The Creator’s intention = the divine will for which the world was created and man was created.
“Make your will like His will.”
To bring the divine intention into action in the world
requires us not only to know what the Creator’s intention is,
but to learn to live by its light.
Reflect:
Think of an action you performed today. Can you identify the what versus the why and how? What was your inner awareness?
Where in your life are you acting from a place of “receiving for myself”? What would it look like to shift that intention?
What does it mean to you to “make your will like His will”? How can you practice that in one small way today?
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