dailydatewithgod

Have you every walked gracefully through a situation by worrying more?  Me either.  Yet, somehow that doesn’t stop me from doing it. Interesting, huh?  A couple of years ago, my spiritual advisor had me write a list of things that I was worried about.  Some of them were big things, but I also made a list at the end of the day of all the times I had worried about something small during the course of the day.  Looking back at them I realized that “worry” was a dressed up word for “fear”.  So then for a while I focused on the fact that I was clearly a fearful person because I walked through life with all these fears.  Then we took a look at the list of things again and instead of seeing them as fears, I noted them as thoughts instead of fears. After doing this for a couple of days I began to realize that is exactly what they were–thoughts.  I attached the word of fear or worry to them and then consequently saw myself as a fear-based person. So, not only was I having thoughts, which we all do, I was attaching a label on them which I made out as something bad about myself.  The reality is that I am a thought-based person. We are all people who have thoughts and attach their identity to their thoughts.  I believe self-centered is another word for it.  In other words I was doing my programming as a human being relying on my brain.  Hmm, nothing particularly unusual or grandiose about that, just par for the course.  So if all I was doing was relying on my base programming for survival. I now saw that I had a clear choice.  I can choose to thrive by inviting God in to help me stay connected to my greater self.  A self that relies on an infinite being.  A self that trusts that no matter what happens it will ultimately be for the greater good and I will become more of who I am meant to be by experiencing it.  My prayer for you today is that you may open your heart to receive the love and comfort of an infinite being who awoke with you this morning just to remind you that you are more than this human experience happening in and around you.  Try it out and see if the day is a little easier.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen