To Whom Does God Call?

Attend to your own heart

I read an article recently that caused me to ponder my own spirituality.  The article described how both of the conservative candidates for WI Supreme Court graduated from the same evangelical based law school founded by the TV evangelist Pat Robertson.  It further described how Wisconsin judge Jennifer Dorow begins each weekday by reading her bible and praying.

My theology is this:  if you open yourself up to the Divine, then you will be led to the work you were meant to do to realize the Kingdom of God on earth.  Now.  My experience of the Spirit is that the Divine is a God of love, of relationship, of preferential options for the poor, of justice, of mercy.

I do not doubt that Judge Dorow’s faith is real.  But how can someone who sits in the presence of the Spirit every day come to a place where she says the worst decision by the U.S. Supreme Court was the one striking down Texas anti-sodomy laws which opened the doors for legal same-sex marriage?

Is Judge Dorow praying to God and not listening for God?  Or, am I listening for God but mistaking my own voice for that of the Divine?  Is one of us wrong?  Can both of us be right?  Can God be leading us both in ways unfathomable to our conventional understanding?

I brought this conundrum with me to my Quaker Meeting for Worship where I can hand over my concerns and wait in expectant silence to see if a path forward emerges.  On this topic I received a clear and compelling answer; one that is so simple that it made me chuckle to myself while sitting in silence. 
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The answer was this:  Don’t worry about it.  Don’t concern yourself with why or how others may be led.  Simply listen for your own leadings and act on them.   Attend to your own heart and give everything else over to God.