dailydatewithgod

When I think back on the course of my relationship with God I am truly humbled.  Not only does God approach me with much more forgiveness, understanding, and laughter than I do, but each morning he essentially says, “Let’s Create.”  Each day is a new opportunity.  God does not wake me up and go “Okay Colleen, you really messed things up yesterday and by the way in a few days you are going to need to focus on (fill-in-the-blank).”  Nope God is all about today and the present moment.  He wants me to be reborn to this new day.  Just as the scriptures say, “Today is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.”  New day, new breath, new opportunities for love, hope, courage, faith, joy, triumph, and blessings.  A new day to experience God as I have not experienced God before.  The circumstances that I come across today have the potential to transform my heart, awaken my soul, and bear witness to the beauty of life.  I play a significant role in that.  God did not create me, nor you, for small things.  Everything that we come across in the course of they day give us an opportunity to create a life either full of God or void of God.  Hopefully I have the courage to choose the life-giving option.  If I am present to it, there is a much greater chance of that.  Yesterday I woke up with a head full of noise, a laundry list of all the things that I was doing wrong.  This was not from God, this is old programming–some story I adopted years ago about how I am not doing it right.  I have learned that I cannot exist long in that kind of head space without wanting to do something to blot it out–so the first thing I did on my date with God (prayer and meditation time) was tell God what was roaming through my head and ask that it be removed.  And it was for a while, but it came back. So then I told a friend about my thinking and it left for a while.  Then I exercised and since that always brings me back to my body and in the present–it left for quite a while.  When it came back I felt that God had given me a few more tools–a reminder to just do what was in front of me to do and a level of acceptance that my head just needed to be in a funky place that day but that it didn’t mean anything.  Lastly, I talked back to the thoughts in my mind with wonder.  In other words, I started saying things like, “What if it is exactly what is supposed to be happening?  What if, we are not supposed to feel differently about that situation?  What if, there is nothing that should have been done differently? What if the future holds gifts beyond my imagination because of what I have experienced in the past? This, I have learned stumps my thinking–there is no response and so slowly the noise in my head got steadily more and more quiet.  Now, for some this may sound like an insane person talking about the thoughts in their head–but it is the same voice or thoughts that are telling you that as you are reading this.  We all have an inner dialog. The left side of our brain in particular that likes to inform us of where we stand at any given moment.  The key to facing that is to question it and to come from the heart and soul.  In other words, it is a God-job.  When I am condemning myself, I am not seeing the possibility of creation today.  When I am condemning myself I am not facing this new day with hope, joy, wonder, laughter, and or forgiveness.  Not only is each day an opportunity to create, but each moment within each day is an opportunity to start anew.  My prayer for you today is that you seize the opportunities to reconceive your notions for this day at whatever moment you choose to do so and know in your heart that God is there to help.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen