dailydatewithgod

We have so many options open to us when it comes to how we choose to show up in the world.  It is always our choice when we are coming from a place of awareness andawakeness.  It is even a choice when it doesn’t feel like one or we don’t like our options.  There seems to be a correlation between a chosen response and an automatic one (the programmed one) when it comes to something we are choosing to engage in.  We have the ability to respond (responsibility) in any given situation but sometimes we aren’t interested so we allow our response to come from an unconscious place.  The key to being present in our lives resides in our willingness to face those choices that we don’t want to make and allow ourselves the opportunity to imperfectly respond and learn from them. We cannot know all the ways that we have been automatically responding from the unconscious at once.  Typically when we find ourselves defeated by our automatic response we become willing to take a closer look.  Instead of viewing our experience of being stuck in the same thing over and over again as a bad thing or that there is something wrong with us, we can choose to see it as an invitation to choose our response.  For me this requires God’s guidance.  When I am at a loss of how to change things, I turn to the Great Creator and ask, “What would you have me do with this?  How do you see this?  Show me where the invitation to love is wrapped up in this view of what I see as something wrong.”  My prayer for us today is that we be open to seeing our automatic responses that no longer work as invitations to bring God into an area of our lives that we thought we “should” be able to handle on our own.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen