dailydatewithgod

I first heard the term kindred spirits when I was ready one of my favorite fiction stories, Anne of Green Gables.  Talk about a woman who sees the world through such grateful glasses.  The way she would describe walking through the meadows was like you had stepped into an alternate universe.  She speaks of the people that she meets and senses a likeness of heart as being a kindred spirit.  They are people she comes across in many different places and circumstances.  Anne seems to see through the eyes of love to connect to something in these people.  It is as though her spirit looks to be joined to those who have a similar spirit.  Given that we all come from the same God, we are all kindred spirits.  It is only our ego that likes us to think we are so different and so unique and we have no connection to others, especially those we don’t like, are irritated by, or disagree with.  Those people, however, are probably the ones that we are more connected to.  I met a woman yesterday and while I was not in the best head space myself, I could see that there was an option to be irritated by how she was behaving–nothing seemed to meet her satisfaction, everything seemed to go wrong for her, she shared something positive with a frown on her face, etc.  My first thought was, “oh God, how long is this class?”  But when I heard myself say that, I paused and said, “God bring her love.”  I knew I could not do it.  But God can.  She is a kindred spirit too, because as the morning went on I could see she was just doing what she knew to do.  That is what we are all doing.  By the end of my time with her I saw a genuine smile and while I don’t think I had anything to do with it, I was grateful to see the light within her shine through her face.  My prayer for us today is that when we encounter our unlikely kindred spirits whom we want nothing to do with, we have the courage to ask God to be for them what we cannot.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen