dailydatewithgod

I think I mentioned before that I can be hard-headed and it is humbling to admit that I can be close-minded too.  It is not as thought I set out to be that way but my mind will get fixed on how its going to be (programming) and it takes a concerted effort to be open to the possibility that it will be different from what I imagine.  As I live life more fully each day I see the possibilities are endless and my finite mind simply cannot come up with all the possible outcomes.  It is really just a way of restricting and controlling how I live.  You see if I already know how it is going to turn out, that is a reason to not fully show up.  Then I can lay low.  My goal up until about 10 years ago was survival.  I was looking to keep things level–my mind would have been happy to just go on automatic pilot but my body was screaming at me–we can’t do this anymore its killing us.  Not to mention that my spirit was weeping.  So when I woke up and I am not sure what it is exactly that caused me to wake up, I realized that my goal of being level was equivalent to being flatlined in my heart.  When your heart measures flatline you are dead.  When I trust the process of life, the ups and downs, and open up the mind to see that I do not know the outcome, life becomes a dance.  The true irony in all of this is that I have been a dancer my whole life as well.  It is an expression of my spirit–deep down, my body and my heart long to flow to a rhythm designed by something greater than me. In order to be open-minded and not treat my head like a fortune-teller, I need to see things as God sees things.  God’s grand design encompasses things I never could have imagined.  The one thing I do know is that my life does not look like I thought it would look like when I would day-dream as a kid, but because of my relationship with God, my heart feels the way I thought I would feel.  That is what being open-minded means for me–connecting with my heart and my spirit.  That connection to something greater than me opens the doors to infinite possibilities.  My prayer for you today is if you are experiencing any close-mindedness about a person or a situation or a feeling, that you are granted the gift of seeing it through God’s eyes.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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