dailydatewithgod

Everything that we experience is a gift. It is an invitation to go into our hearts, to see what love can do in and through us, and to get connected to our hearts.  Too often we don’t like the packaging on the gift or we turn it away because it wasn’t what we expected.  We judge the outer contents-the wrapping.  Or we open it up and it allows us to see something inside ourselves that we do not like or makes us uncomfortable.  Yet God invites us to take a closer look.  He is there.  He is waiting to show us what He sees.  He sees the love even if it is buried underneath layers of anger, hurt, frustration, resentment.  He sees it because he gifted us with a loving heart.  He invites us to clear away the layers.  We get an opportunity to do that in life through everyday moments.  Our knee-jerk reaction when it brings up something uncomfortable in us is to put it on the other person. But the reality is that they are not having the same experience we are.  The reaction is ours, not theirs.  They do not do things to elicit a reaction from us.  Others just do what they do.  My reactions are indications of where I am mentally and emotionally in the moment.  I know this because when I am in a good mood, not much bothers me.  When I am tired, stressed, or exhausted everything has the potential to bother me.  It is in those moments that I am least interested in looking at what is going on within myself and my own heart.  It is precisely at those times when I need God to give me courage to do just that.  My prayer for you today is that when you are given the gift of looking at your own heart, you may ask God to see it through His eyes.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen