dailydatewithgod

Take a breath, take in the idea that you are in this moment, reading this blog and there is nothing else that needs to be happening right now.  The moment you do that your mind will begin to talk back to you about what needs to happen next or perhaps how what you really should be doing is (fill-in-the blank).  I know that is very much the notion I had before I created my dedicated date (morning prayer and meditation time) with God.  I don’t have time to just be.  I need to be doing.  I forgot so quickly that I am a human being not a human doing.  I often need to stop and ask myself, who am I being in this moment?  Is what I am doing connected to whom I am being?  My actions are simply a by-product of my thoughts which create my feelings which then become actions.  Don’t get me wrong, life is about being lived.  Action is important.  I believe in living a spiritual life in action not just praying and meditating.  I think if I were supposed to be doing that I would be at a monastery somewhere. But I am not, I am in Los Angeles with a full-life.  But being present in the moment is sometimes the hardest place to be.  It requires an acceptance that I am exactly where I am supposed to be.  Sitting in a seemingly pointless meeting, traffic, in line at the post-office, waiting for my computer to boot-up, preparing for a presentation, waiting to hear back from someone.  Really?  I am to be present in those little moments of life?  Isn’t there somewhere else I “should” be? Nope, God says.  Be with me.  I am here right now.  I love that song “Right Now” by Van Halen.  It even has a great music video.  “Right now is everything!”  Many spiritual masters and writers talk and live the now.  I have heard it said that now is the gift, that is why they call it the present.  In my experience when I am in the now, I experience God in the fullest core of who I am.  Because I AM with the great I AM.  It is then that I see beauty and love and greatness and joy and find that there is much of life to delight in. What are the gifts you have received from being in the now?  My prayer for you today is that you experience the gift and trust of being now.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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