Good luck - where does it come from?

It's true, I’m a little bit behind. The latest and final story in the Harry Potter series hits the bookstores in July, and I realized I hadn’t read the Half-Blood Prince yet -- the previous installment.

The Harry Potter books chronicle a young person’s involvement in the good vs. evil battle. From Harry’s "Potions" class comes our topic for today-- the good luck potion. If someone drinks just a little, everything will go exactly right for them for several hours. It turns out in practice that what the brew does is allow Harry to listen to his intuitions and follow them with confidence. As I see it, the effect of the potion had less to do with luck, and more to do with listening and following.

For me, luck has little to do with life. Life is about making decisions, preferably good ones. Which brings us to the incredible ability God has given each of us to listen to and trust our own intuitions. What if we define intuitions as angel thoughts from God, coming to us with good ideas?

Then how do we know if an idea is an intuition from God, or just a random thought running through our heads? For me it helps if I’ve asked God for an answer to something (big or little), then the intuitive answer has a clear relationship with the question. And I’ve found that usually intuitions can be identified because they are unselfish, generous, may require a change of plans, or just seem like the right thing to do, even if not convenient.

Like the hero of the kids’ series, we need to listen to our intuitions, and trust them in order to follow them confidently.

Angels. God's thoughts passing to man;

spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect;
the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality,
counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.

Mary Baker Eddy

See also: Angels according to kids