dailydatewithgod

Faith really does take work.  It is like exercising a muscle but outside of the gym.  At least when you are working out at the gym, you know its coming.  It is exactly what you go there for.  The exercise of faith comes in unexpected forms in life.  But I guess if I acknowledge that my life is an opportunity to practice faith,then I won’t be so surprised when the opportunity comes to exercise that muscle.  I know for sure that God has a sense of humor and am even more sure that God laughs at me a great deal.  I don’t mean a vicious laugh but the kind of quiet amusement that is observed with fascination.  God loves me (and you) so much that he does not interfere with our opportunities for growth. God wants us to relish the moments to experience our true selves, not just what our head (ego) tells us. No matter how much I might plea at times to be magically plucked from a situation and delivered to the end or where there is no strife, God will not oblige.  Instead a steady presence and a reminder of connecting within my own heart and spirit is offered.  I can huff and puff all I want about how it isn’t what I was looking for and that I don’t want to be here and experience this and God does listen, but God knows better than I that I will learn something from whatever the situation if I am open to it.  Sometimes I learn it right then and there, sometimes in hindsight.  But anything that I have gone through has ultimately expanded my capacity for love and patience even if it took years.  What God offers is not a rescuing from life, but a sureness of reminder that I am not the experience I am going through.  Sometimes the feelings are so powerful I think I am the feelings.  I think I am the mess or the mistake or not enough or the idiot who wasn’t smart enough to get myself out of whatever it is.  In God’s eyes, I am assured that I AM hope, love, power, courage, patience, strength, freedom, joy, and no situation or circumstance will change that.  No matter what I am experiencing in the moment, I do not need to run because I am being given an opportunity to be that which I AM more fully. Sometimes the circumstances make it easy to show up as my true self, other times it is more challenging.  But God will not step in and take over when I am being given an opportunity to be a reflection of God’s love to the world through the situation.  I just have to remember to turn to and draw upon God’s power and faith in me when I don’t think I can do it or I start believing that I am the circumstance.  My prayer for us today is that we see whatever challenge of faith in ourselves that we are experiencing as simply a reminder of God’s faith in us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen