We all make choices all of the time. From simple choices like deciding what to have for breakfast this morning to getting married or buying a house. While choosing which shoes to wear today is not likely to be a major, life-changing event, some other choices are. Choosing a profession and attending college courses to prepare for it is one of those. Deciding where you want to live is one, though not as much as it used to be because we have been becoming more mobile the past few decades (though the current housing market may be changing it back again: cycles). Deciding to get married and who to marry is another major choice that has lost a little of it's importance with the acceptability of people getting married and divorced several times during their life. 
    Another area that is really a major choice, but is often not treated as such, is choosing a church or spiritual school. Many people never bother to make a choice at all simply allowing their parents choice to be their choice. And the parents often chose for the very same reason! At least, I suppose, they can blame the parents if the choice made was a poor one.
    Even when people do choose for themselves, they very often do it the wrong way. They choose a church or spiritual school or teacher based on how popular that church or teacher is. That's like choosing to have an anniversary dinner at McDonald's because it's the most popular restaurant. Others choose because it is the one friends go to, which really isn't much different from defaulting to the one your parents sent you to as a child. And still others make a real effort to choose correctly using their intellect to select. This usually results in selecting one that has social activities you find appealing and political ideas you agree with. In short, you choose the one you most agree with based on what you already know and believe, so what is the point of joining at all? If your not going to learn anything, why bother to join?
    As Lawrence points out in the excerpt from one of his poems above, the soul should be doing the choosing in such matters. The soul doesn't care what is socially popular or trendy. The soul doesn't care what your intellect and ego like. The soul wants you to choose the church or spiritual school that will best awaken your spiritual facilities and teach you how to nourish your soul and spirit with God's Light.

The problem is, most of us don't know how to listen to our soul, so here are some hints:

• If you feel a kind of joy well up within you when you walk by a certain church, that is your soul signaling you.

• If you are looking at ads for spiritual school, and one ad keeps grabbing your attention for reasons you can't understand, that is your soul calling.

• If you are attending some conference where there are several spiritual teachers and you find yourself drawn to one without knowing why, that is you soul signaling.

In short, let your intuition help you make this important choice because nothing in your life is more important than your immortal soul.