dailydatewithgod

 I used to think that if I was to be kind to everyone that meant I had to have them all close to me at the same level.  Somehow by acknowledging their presence I was letting them in close. I never understood that I could be loving and tolerant of others and still have a different kind of relationship with them.  As I was driving around LA. yesterday I was keenly aware of the homeless people who were carting around their stuff.  Maybe it was easier to see them because there was less traffic or perhaps it was the heartbreak that their Christmas would be spent on the street.  There is one in particular that has a sign that says please help me.  Each time I have passed him, I have asked God, how can I help him?  Most of the time the message I get is to look him in the eye when my car passes him and acknowledge his presence as a human being.  Sometimes I get the sense that I should give money and in general I keep snacks in my car to hand out.  Being inclusive however, is not just about being loving to those less desirable.  It is about embracing those elements of myself that I find intolerable or less than desirable. Only by recognizing God in those places can I begin to heal them, to recognize them as part of the whole.  I need courage to do that because I spend more time judging those things.  I think of Mother Theresa’s quote, “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”  It never occurred to me that when I judge myself I am not loving myself.  More importantly that becomes the perspective through which I see everyone else around me.  My reluctance to include all comes from fear.  A fear that I will be hurt and that some part of me will be taken away.  But if I am in God and with God then I am part of the abundance of creation and there is no lack there, there is no “taken away”.  My prayer for you today is that you are willing to see God and include God in a part of your life that needs His love. I think that if we each do that in some small part we will begin to include all of us in our lives.  Have you had an experience of including someone or some part of yourself that you once wanted nothing to do with?-feel free to share in the comments.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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