dailydatewithgod

One of the most wonderful aspects of God is that we can rely on the fact that God will always be the God, the Great Creator, Lover Spirit, Giver of all things given, Yahweh, Allah, Chris, All that Is, Love, Great Reality, or whatever magnanimous or simple name you might have for God. This means no matter what happens in our daily lives we can connect with the one constant that will always be there.  We can trust in the assurance that the love from which we were created does not go anywhere even when we feel disconnected from it.  I remember hearing that God does not abandon us, God does not turn his back on us.  I don’t remember when or where I heard it, but when I was in one of the darkest times of my life (Teaching in the inner city, depressed, exhausted, using food to save my life while simultaneously hurting myself, angry, and shut down), there was this little voice that reminded me of that.  In my usual style I challenged God that if that was true, to show me what I was doing to push him away.  I believe the answer came to me a few years later when I came to face myself and deal with my addiction.  It was then that I saw that I had been using food as my god and it simply did not work.  There was no room for All That Is or Love when I was busy stuffing my face, checking out, and believing my negative thinking.  I have since had other experiences and realized that there are all little kinds of ways that I put other things in front of God or that I make into gods.  I even want to make certainty or my illusion of certainty my god.  Ultimately, they all fail.  The gift is when I come to that realization I am them reunited with the Great Creator, with my true self, with the assurance that I was never lost but just took a different road for a while.  We all have ways of thinking and behaving that we make into Gods.  Even some of the people in our lives whom we want to please or not upset or get to approve of us–they become our gods.  My experience has shown me that the only God is God and no matter how many other gods I create the God of Gods is still there smiling when I take a breath and reconnect.  My prayer for us today is that we breathe in the assurance that no matter where we are today or how many other gods we have created, the one that Created us all is there beneath all of that with love ready to relish us and all the paths we have taken to reconnect.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen