dailydatewithgod

This is why we are here.  We were created by love, out of love, for love and to witness love.  The word gets thrown around so much and we have so many human experiences of love that we find ourselves confused.  We get caught up in romantic notions of what it means to love and be loved.  We compare different experiences of love and get caught up in “shoulds” of love.  God is love.  We can no more pinpoint exactly how love should be then we can pinpoint exactly how God should be.  I often think of the Hebrew scriptures that describe that we are all made in the image and likeness of God.  Have you looked around lately?  That means that all of us with all our variety our what God looks like.  If God encompasses so many physical manifestations, what makes me think that God can only show up as something specific in a specific circumstance.  The truth for me is that the more I grow closer to God, the more my experience of God broadens and deepens.  We think that when we begin a friendship or enter into a relationship that the person we are and the person they are is some sort of constant.  The only thing constant is change.  When we decide to love one another we are deciding to be a stand for each other’s growth and change.  To witness to the beauty of God becoming manifest in whatever way that happens in our lives and the lives of those we touch.  I would say that love is change, love is transformation, love is seeing it all for what it is and not what we “want” or think it “should” be.  To be loved is to accept that the entity that created every little cell in our bodies from the very beginning is invested in how that grows and changes.  Our Creator is so excited as we grow and change and transform and become more and more connected.  When our separateness falls away we can begin to see our roots=love.  We can let go of expectations and be ready to embrace the adventure of life . . . trusting that it will enfold just as it should.  My challenge for you today is to look in the mirror and find one thing that you love about you and tell yourself out loud, I am loved!  You may not believe it but if you repeat that enough you will.  Just think if you can find one thing about you, you can certainly find one thing about that person who irritates you.  One small step, it’s all it takes.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen