dailydatewithgod

One of the funny things of life as far as I can tell is the balance of our thinking and our emotions.  Intellectuality is often seen as superior to feeling because it is based in thinking and functionality and truth.  Emotionality is often cased as some sort of nicety or mostly feminine quality which adds to life’s sparkle but is not as necessary as functional thinking.  The irony of course is that without emotion our thoughts would not carry such weight.  Our thinking (our making things mean something) causes a feeling which stirs us into action.  To be aroused is defined as to bring forth as in emotion.  To stir something from within us. I think God is aroused all the time.  He is always stirring something within us.  God is this life force that is moved and inspired and calls us to be the same.  Yes, we are functional and have tasks to complete and we do not live in fantasy but that is not to say that connecting to feelings inside of us isn’t just as important.  I don’t know too many people who are as moved by thought as they are by emotion.  When I see or hear something express their thinking, what touches my heart is not what they are actually saying or doing it is the feeling they are conveying through that thought.  That is what pierces my heart.  When I see a baseball player hit a home run I am aroused not by the calculations of the angle at which his shoulder was that allowed him to place the bat at such an angle and with appropriate force  hit the ball so hard that it was knocked out of the park.  I am aroused by the passion behind what caused him to focus and give his all.  I remember a few years ago I went rock climbing for the very first time.  Now, for someone who spent most of her adult life obese, to be climbing anything but a step-ladder was pretty miraculous.  Even though I had been at a healthy body weight for over 5 years at that point, I wondered if I could do it.  As per my usual, I was not going to let my fear stop me.  So I strapped in the ropes and proceeded to climb this wall in Joshua tree.  The man who was my anchor (or whatever they are called) was very encouraging, but to say that it was easy would be a lie.  There was little to grab onto and I don’t have the greatest arm strength, but I just had to keep breathing and focus and hold on for dear life.  Not to mention the constant conversation with God.  In the 20-30 minutes that it took to scale the side of this one wall I wanted to give up more times that I could count, but I didn’t.  I cannot express in words the feeling when I finally made it to the top.  Woohoo!  Such a feeling of exhilaration and triumph was aroused in me not only because I had accomplished this feat, but because of where I had come from.  I was so moved that when I got back down I broke into tears.  I knew in my heart of hearts that God and I had crossed over into a new realm.  Being aroused by life doesn’t always happen in climbing big rocks, to me it is about being open to being touched by life.  My thinking will want to rationalize everything but sometimes I just have to give in and be pleased by life.  What arouses you?  My prayer for you today is that you may be aroused by something to see the good that is inside of you and all those around you.  Make it a good one!  Peace~Colleen

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