dailydatewithgod

When I stop to really look into the eyes of another person, my heart is softened.  What I see there is a longing and love.  Perhaps it is a longing to be loved and accepted, perhaps it is a longing to give from the heart.  We all possess this desire to love and to be loved.  It is what gets us up in the morning, it is what moves us to action, it is what calms our hearts and our minds.  We have an opportunity each day to connect with the source of that love, but we are conditioned to believe that it will come from someone or something outside ourselves.  So we search endlessly.  It is only when we have exhausted that outward search or burned out on it that we begin to look within.  What caused me to begin to look within was because I had created such a barricade and a wall around my heart that I could no longer breathe.  It was literally caving in around me and I could no longer tolerate the pain.  My soul knew on a deep level that what I was living was not authentic.  So, under the submission of pain, I became willing to change.  Change is not easy or at least the transition is not because it requires a letting go of all I think that I know and my mind is not interested in lessons in humility.  But I am grateful that I was gifted with an open heart that is interested in being restored.  For that restoration there is only ONE place to turn, to the Great Creator who counts me among his greatest creations of love.  My prayer for you today is that you are able to connect to your heart which counts you among the loved.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen