dailydatewithgod

It is so easy to forget how very close God is to us when we get caught up in our day-to-day business of human life.  I am very grateful for my date time with God in the morning because it has caused me to be more aware of God’s presence throughout the day.  It is very common when I am faced with an uncomfortable, thoughts, feelings, etc. that I paused and say to God, “I can’t feel you or sense you, where are you?”  I can be very demanding at times, but in the end I always get the sense that God is telling me I AM right here.  It is then that I remember that my thought, feeling, experience, or wherever I am in my head is some place that I do not think God is or wants to be.  It isn’t until I am willing to go to any lengths to sense the proximity of God that I am restored to a closeness with my Creator.  Those lengths mean pausing and connecting within myself to see what is going on and trusting that I am in a process and it is not about getting out of the experience but yet again: what I can learn from the experience. When I feel separate from God, my heart aches. I then know to reach out to a friend, write to let all the thoughts out of my head, or surround myself physically by a place where I feel connected to God, all the while asking for the courage to see God in whatever discord I am experiencing.  It requires trust on my part that even though I feel disconnected, it is merely an illusion and I am walking a path of restoration of proximity to God.  My prayer for us today is that when we experience those moments when God seems nowhere near that we invite them in as an opportunity to let go of whatever might be standing in the way of God trying to get close to us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen