Maybe it is time to learn to trust my own intuitions a bit more, rather than going with the opinions of other people (who don't necessarily live their lives the way I would like to live mine personally - I don't mean they're doing something wrong, at all...just - I need to live my own life)...which - I need to learn that it is okay to disagree, and that maybe my own intuitions have

So much of my mind's guidance about living is intuition...only sometimes I don't follow my intuitions - which is maybe why I am a very confused person sometimes. :o But I have started to learn that my intuitions are actually right and good a lot of the time. They tend to be a combination of subconscious observation/realization and reasoning that runs pretty deep or else pretty far into the future - so that my conscious mind isn't always inclined to listen to it, with its focus on the present and pragmatism and what is "known".

I wonder if at times following intuition could be faith. I mean, it could be the opposite too. But what I mean is that the world generally doesn't justify following intuitions; it is mostly hard logic and pragmatism...but the truth is a lot of the time God calls us to do things that defy hard logic and pragmatism. And although we are called to seek the counsel of those who are wise, sometimes the people who fill our heads with their counsel are not wise. Too often I have found that "advice" is personal prejudice, preference, bias, or judgmentalism.

I feel like I need some sort of rule of thumb for when to follow intuition (lol - an unintuitive guide to following intuition), but the truth is, in the end (and the beginning) it is God who we must go to. "He is the first and last...before all that has been, beyond all that will pass..." (Steven Curtis Chapman song, 'God Is God') Whether it has to do with following intuition and feeling or pragmatism and logic, I think that one is not more "right" than the other. The question is, "What does God call us to?" - "a man plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps..."

One last note - the heart is also the first and the last thing to evaluate in a situation, whether it be your own heart or another person's.