dailydatewithgod

The World and All Its Abundance of living breathing things speak to us each day of the constant growing and living that exists around us and within us.  It is an assurance that no matter what disasters occur, life goes on.  Even those plants die, they return again next season. At the same time that people are dying, others are being born.  Life is always cycling through and even in outer space scientists notice that the universe is constantly expanding.  So given that, why is it that we hold on so tight to things out of fear that they will destroy us.  We do this with our secrets.  The little things about ourselves that carry shame or blame that we hope no one will notice.  Everything we do serves a purpose.  Some things are beneficial, other things we do because we have always done them.  They no longer serve us but we have incorporated them into our ego’s definition of self and so to admit they no longer work and want to release them means a death to the ego’s sense of self.  The first step to letting them go and being free of these ideas about ourselves is admitting we have them and that they are no longer truly serve us, the true self. When I began to admit that acting like a victim, (“I can’t believe this is happening to me.  It is all my fault.  I must have a sign on my forehead.”, etc) no longer served me, my ego balked at the idea.  It had become so incorporated in who I thought I was that I could not imagine being otherwise.  But when I looked at the evidence that my attitude kept me trapped in my happiness being dependent upon outside circumstances instead of the knowing of who I am in God’s eyes, I became willing to ask God for help to relieve me of that way of being.  It is a path.  A path of recovery from my ego’s idea of self to my God idea of self.  Until I admitted to myself and to God that I no longer saw enough benefit from this way of being, I could not be free of it.  Then came the work of practicing the opposite way of being–empowerment.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to acknowledge and admit, even if we do nothing with it, the ways of being that no longer serve our greater good.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen