dailydatewithgod

One of my favorite authors is a woman by the name of Florence Scovel-Shinn and she has a book called, “The Game of Life and How to Play it.”  What captures me most about all her ideas in any of her writing is “Your word is your wand.”  It is a concept conveyed by most spiritual teachers.   Don Miguel-Ruiz who wrote “The Four Agreements” talks about that same idea.  The first step in being a person of my word is paying attention to what I am saying.  Sometimes I am not even aware of the words that I am using.  Sometimes it takes me a while to recognize that I am creating my own reality by what I think and say.  I often mention in this blog that there is what happens and there is what we make it mean. Our words tell us what we make something mean.  When I label something good or bad, right or wrong, I have placed a judgment on it.  Scripture says that God is the judge, not me.  It is not  up to me to judge, it is up to me to learn.  That is what we do when we play.  We learn.  We learn what works and what doesn’t work.  When you build a sand castle and you place it too close to the rising tide, it gets washed over.  It doesn’t mean I did it wrong, it means it didn’t work and now I know to do it a little further away from the water.  When I get on the swings and I don’t move my legs, I don’t get much swing.  I realize that it doesn’t work so I begin to move my legs and viola!  It works.  When we play we are much more open to learning.  When we take the pressure off having to do it right or that we might get it wrong.  When we let go of being good or bad and just get in there to see what happens, we learn.  Learning is a state of humility.  Learning is an open attitude to experience what life is all about.  Many of us have to grow up really fast and so we don’t fully experience the playfulness of childhood.  But it is never too late to approach life with that mind-set.  I don’t envision that God has set up life as one big booby-trap to see where we are going to mess up.  Instead, I think it is a big game board.  We even get to pass go and collect $200.00 because we are playing.  My prayer for you today is that you may listen to your words, notice if they are words of play or words of condemnation.  Then you can ask God to help you play his game of life. Who knows, you might just have some fun.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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