Often times we find ourselves living our lives and when we stop and look around, we think, “Hmm. This isn’t what I thought it would be.” Whether our life has taken us on a drastically different course than we thought or there are just certain things that we thought for sure would have happened by now, there can be a sense of dissatisfaction. Heck, this can happen during the course of our regular day when a conversation goes in a different direction, or someone makes a random turn in the car in front of us. Life has these moments that often seem disturbing. They are only disturbing because they wake us out of our sleep. It is the automatic pilot experience that our brain and our ego were counting on having us stay in so that we can hold on to what we identify ourselves to be. If we wake up then we will notice that we are in survival mode and the mind is quite happy to survive, nothing else needed. Our souls have a greater calling and those are the whispers we hear in the moments of quiet that tug at some place inside of us. It is the notion that maybe there is more to this than meets the eye. But quickly life shows up for us to handle something and so we stop listening to that inner knowing because we don’t’ have time for it. God invites us to slow down and tune in to that quiet knowing. It is in that space of quiet that God speaks to our heart. It is in that space of quiet that God shares the delight of who we are. But in order to connect with that we have to sit long enough to get past the chatter that our brains are doing and that is uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable to admit that maybe there is more to life and we are too scared to step into the unknown. It is uncomfortable to admit that maybe we aren’t really getting the joy and satisfaction out of the present that we try and convince ourselves we are because we have the job, the car, the relationship, etc. Or conversely we think that we aren’t experiencing joy because we don’t have the job, the car, the relationship and if we did then we will be happy. Most people who have undergone transformation in their lives speak of a time when all those “things” they thought brought them such joy came crashing down. I certainly have had my share of crashes over the years. But we don’t’ have to wait for that to happen. We can awaken the wondering, the fascination, the curiosity, the uncomfortable a little at a time. If I trust that God is always love and always there then I am willing to be a little uncomfortable because it is not what my ego is telling me it is. It is not a destruction of me, it is a breaking down of the story of my ego and an opportunity to get to know me as God knows me. My prayer for us today is that we welcome the little annoyances, wake-up calls, dissatisfactions, and discomforts and just before we want to crawl back under the covers we ask God to be right there with us and share in the awakening. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen
Are you willing to ask God to join you in the discomfort so that you can ride it out into the beauty of see the real you? Share in the comments.
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