Sometimes Free Will Scares Me...What about you?

Free will is a beautiful gift from our Heavenly Father. If we use it correctly, we will be wonderfully blessed. If we read the Bible daily, we will know what to do. Let's use it to do good and not to do harm. A well-trained conscience will also steer us in the right direction. God can tell the difference between weakness and wickedness. Be well!

"Feel the fear and do it anyway" as the saying goes. Or, as the great Chiun said in the awesome film "Remo, Unarmed and Dangerous": "Fear is just a feeling. You feel hot. You feel hungry. You feel angry. You feel afraid. Fear can never kill you." Think of it as a great adventure. You're recreating Moses leading people to the Promised Land. You may not have to part the Red Sea but it can still be exciting!

Free will has never scared. I am stubborn. I will do what I Want to do. As for G-d? He is ready for Any move you take.In other words unless you choose to become a serial killer, there is no " wrong " move.I believe your G-d is there with you to make sure you don't fall. So follow your bliss. Hubby's job sounds good. You All will be together and you can be a stay at home mom, right? It sounds like the right move to me.

What do you mean? do you mean (FREE THINGS, OR FREE HUMEN BEINGS IN LIFE?) if you mean living as free human beings yes it is scary because life can be scary especially without a clear direction from god, but think about it wouldn't life be boring if someone was telling us what to do all the time I think not always knowing what to do is what makes life an adventure, sure it be great if we could occasionally just ask our creator to tell us what to do, but as we all know that's just not the way life works or god works That said, god gave us instincts, and intuition, and a brain these are great tools if we use them well these are the tools that can help lead us to the correct path in life, we just have to remember that god is with us in this great adventure and we just have to use the mental and spiritual tools we were given at birth to help us through the rough scary parts of life.

I understand your misgivings. Even with the family divided, as it is now, you're stiil in familiar territory with familiar folk and it scares you to leave that familiarity behind and venture off into the unknown. I'd think, as you have probably prayed on it, that if you're not given a need to stay then the need is to leave and bring the family back together again..as it should be. That is my advice to you..As to your question, yes, free will often gives me the willies but it scares me far more with the thought of being a mindless slave..Good luck! Enjoy!

i believe in free will to a certain extent, but i believe our lives are mapped out for us. i believe we each have a soul mate, and i believe they have been put somewhere on this earthm somewhere very close to us, but just far enough away that we won't find them until we are ready. until we have got all our immature relationship teething problems out of the way. we've had our first kiss, first person we've slept with, first break up, first fight, first cheat if we;ve cheated or been cheated on, we've learnt all the rights and wrongs of a relationship from all our failed ones.. so we will meet our soulmate whenever we are ready, and we KNOW how to make it work.. i believe we have the career we are supposed to, mother, receptionist, doctor, dentist.. i believe everything is laid out for us, and eveyrthing happens for a reason.. and our free will is only subject to certain things, like what to eat for dinner, what way to wear our hairs.. i think our free will is controlled and subjected to our surroundings and our path in life.. so you don't need to worry about making a wrong decision :)

Free will is dangerous when the mind is not under ones control.God has given every human being free will to do whatever he likes and at the same time he has issued a hidden warning that indiscriminate use of it will land him in great trouble and will take him further away from Him. Through spiritual practices like constntly taking the name of God or meditating on his forms or his aspects one can grow closer to Him and by doing so one can gain control over the mind and develop the power of discrimination.When this power is fully developed then one cannot go wrong when one has to take a dicey decision.The man who is in control of his mind will have the power of intuition fully developed and this power will always guide him in all his actions.Then he will know what is right and what is wrong and act accordingly.

Free will doesn't necessarily mean take off with wild oats and let your soul set free. Free will means with some regard as with stepping forward with the right intentions and doing the right thing, free will the wrong way isn't what we plan to do.

If you really think about it, it IS a bit scary. But that shouldn't hold you back from making the decision, or going ahead with the move. You are working towards a goal here, which is to make your family's situation better. And that should be enough as a guide and enough motivation to make sure that all the good things DO happen.

Yes it does a lot. Sometimes i felt i was doing right only to end up that the decision I have chosen is wrong. But i see things on a different light now. Every decision no matter how small it has to be prayed for. Knowing that God will always be there for us no matter what made me realize that with God life will always be beautiful. :)

I like being free and I am not afraid of having free will. It is a beautiful concept if you think about it. It would be horrible to have somebody checking you out everyday and have control over your life...without you being able to do a damn thing about it. Listen to the voice inside your heart. We are not perfect we all make mistakes, I am sure if there really is a God he will understand you, after all you are suppose to be his creation.

Free will can at times be scary I agree. I have often thought about whether or not a discussion we are making is the right one. There is no need to be overly worried though because God does know how you are feeling at this time. As long as you and your family are trying to make the right decision that will benefit all of you he can work with that to help you. I'm sure that you and your family have given careful consideration to the decision that you have come to. I think that if you are really trying to do what's right and are remembering certain principles that can be applied to your moving situation things can work out well.

It does make me scared, mainly because, every ones definition of "free will" may differ. I mean there is a general understanding what it is, but what does it really mean to be free. Are we really free? or are we limited to what are norm society accepts as being free. Though God, and many holy books have a set of rules that define what our actions are limited to, our society's laws are major factors to what our freedom leads to. I believe every action we make, might be OK as most cases, but it will always have some sort of contradiction one may not be aware of. My suggestion is, ask yourself if what your about to do is OK. I mean if you believe it is right, then ask again, if the society will accept this action as righteous.

Of course, for every serious decision that you make in life, there is always the fear that perhaps you are not making the right decision and there is a worry about what the consequences of those decisions may be. But I think we cannot go through life worrying about each and every decision we have to make - do what you think is right and deal with the consequences, good or bad. Each experience will allow you to grow and develop as a person.

I'm not real religious but YES it makes me super nervous. It's kind of reassuring to think we might have a predetermined fate, so we don't have the burden of thinking/knowing that every decision we make (even the little ones) will have an effect on our future (or lack thereof). It's scary to start thinking in these circles.