dailydatewithgod

As God and I spent our date time together this morning and this message came to me I was reminded of a time that we met up many years ago when I was in college. I had committed to spending a 1/2 hour per week during Lent in meditation and when I went the first time into the blessed sacrament chapel and sat on the cushion and focused on my breathing–not sure exactly what to expect a picture developed in my mind.  It was me walking into the chapel and the man of Jesus coming up to me and embracing me and saying “I am So glad you came.  You said you would come and you came!” Literally, the next 1/2 hour was of this same vision over and over.  No matter how much I tried to change the conversation and talk about how I knew that there were things I was doing wrong.  He just kept saying, “I don’t want to talk about that, I just want you to know how excited I am that you are here.”  At the end he asked me if I would come back next week and I said yes.  Sadly, I don’t think I did, well not for many years.  Why I wouldn’t come back to such love and acceptance?  Maybe because it was foreign to me.  I was in the middle of a period in my life where I was on a death path(of which I can share more later).  I am grateful, however that I finally did make it back.  Maybe not in that chapel, but then again I find I can be in a sacred chapel at any moment of any time if I just remember that the body I live in is a sacred chapel and that the world I live in –everything and everyone was created by this loving God–it is all sacred.  I remember when I studied Native American religions, I was so touched that that was how they saw the world.  There was no place where the Great Spirit was not present.  I have even read “God is either God is everything or He isn’t.” So I have much to be aware of today because when God was thanking me for showing up today to be with my family I felt a calling to see God in every moment today–the beautiful Arizona sky, the interactions of my family members, the love of people on the street, the flowers,and me.  Even when I think that God is absent, I am reminded that it is just a thought and it is not true.  I just need to take a breath and be aware.  In what small way can you be aware of God today? He will be so excited when you notice–trust me on this.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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