dailydatewithgod

If life is not about what happens but what I make it mean (the 10/90 rule as I like to call it), then the more open I am to seeing the meaning as different that my original decision lies the power to change my whole experience. I need God’s help with this.  I can only come up with so much on my own with my finite mind.  I find my most powerful prayers are the ones where I ask God to show me how to see things, or to come between me and my thinking about an experience.  I have been doing a lot of that lately.  My mind has these fixed ideas that come from experiences that I had a long time ago.  And as the mind does, when I experience a similar feeling it goes back into its files and searches for similarity and then plays the old tape.  I appreciate that my mind does this when it comes to a situation of life and death.  I don’t think I would make it if in a time of danger (someone chasing me with a knife)  if I had to stop and remind myself to breathe. But the only persons with knives chasing me lately are old fixed ideas of how I relate to men.  Not exactly life threatening, although I interpreted it that way when I was very little.  First, I ask God to help me be in the present (I am a grown woman) .  Then I ask God for the courage to let go of the old story, not make myself wrong for the agreement I made as a kid, and create a new experience so that I can relate to others and to myself from this present moment.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to see deeper into something that we are “certain” we are seeing, especially if it is causing a discord in our present day experience.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen