Love the Journey Now: Christian Reflections

By Lorraine Piotrowski

Lorraine Piotrowski began having spiritual reflections while going through a very stressful time in her life and began writing them down and filled in many notebooks. She was attending a writers group at the time and decided to turn her writings into a book. Her journey has produced this book: a thoughtful spiritual meditation on what it means to follow Gods will in your life and on seeking emotionally healthy responses to lifes challenges through faith, prayer, and patience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jul 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512796360

Lorraine Piotrowski

Lorraine Piotrowski started writing short stories in grade school and enjoyed studying sentence structure. She has attended the University of Toronto Mississauga for the past 6 years pursuing an English Specialist Degree. She has written a book of Christian Spiritual Reflections entitled : “Love the Journey”, published in 2015. She produced a CD of this work spoken by Michael Oesch in 2017. “Love the Journey Now” is currently being published by Westbow Press, set to launch in book stores and online in July, 2017. Lorraine has worked in business for the past 30 years and is an accomplished musician, artist, and athlete. She has been a committed Christian since 1978 and has attended many Spiritual Retreats and done Missionary work. She enjoys traveling, volunteer work, Art appreciation, sketching, playing piano, studying Calculus and conversational French. She has produced a CD of piano Meditation Music which she composed and performed. Her next projects are writing a book about her life and a book of poetry. She has performed trumpet for 40 years in various churches and orchestras including the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra for 3 years and the University of Toronto Concert Band. She has also written and illustrated a unique children’s book. Lorraine resides in Mississauga, Ontario. She has been a member of the Writers and Editors Network (WEN) in Toronto for the past 8 years.

Book preview

1 Discerning God’s Will from Our Own Imaginings

God uses many different ways to let us know his will. We must be humble enough, however, to be able to discern his will from our own human imaginings. This discernment takes constant prayer and faith, and we must listen to God. But above all, discernment takes being honest with ourselves about what is God and what is us. This all flows from initially making a commitment to follow him.

That being said, in Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance, he writes, A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. … Trust thyself. … Accept the place that Divine Providence has found for you. … Great men know that the Eternal was stirring in their hearts working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

Emerson encourages us not to dismiss without notice our innermost thoughts, our deepest feelings, and our profound insights simply because they come from us. He recognizes that God works in and through us. Thus, there is a fine line in distinguishing what is of ourselves and what is of God. With continuous prayer, earnest seekers of the truth can know God’s will for their lives in either a broad sense or in particular