dailydatewithgod

Deep down in the recesses of our hearts we are searching for asense of comfort and peace.  It is our drive to this sense of wholeness and feeling of being at home that drives us.  In the awareness that we are missing that sense of wholeness and comfort in ourselves the moves us to search for it.  St. Augustine speak of a restlessness of heart.  Every person who has had a longing knows of this experience.  The difficulty we encounter is that we search for it relentlessly but often in the wrong places.  We often look for it outside of ourselves.  The sense of peace and coziness we seek actually resides within us.  It is found in the touching of the God within us.  We sense it when we see it displayed in others and in experiences in the world outside of us.  But it touches and awakens the place inside of us.  We will be ultimately disappointed if we continue to only seek it outside of ourselves.  Our salvation is to be found when we recognize that what we are experiencing has awakened something from inside of us and we must return to that to experience it more fully again and again.  My prayer for us today is that when we notice an experience or a person that causes us to feel that sense of coziness or peace or wholeness we recognize that the feeling or sense is coming from within us, the outside experience is simply a conduit to awaken us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen