dailydatewithgod

In this beautiful world that we inhabit there are many systems in place.  Natures’, society’s, family’s, and personal systems that guide our thoughts and thus our beliefs which are the basis for our decisions.  One of the great opportunities of living and growing is to question those systems.  Once our blueprints have been put in place in our formative years we have a set of guidelines.  Typically we go along with them until they come into collision with either something we want or something we witness as different.  Our ego mind however wants us to believe that it is not really okay to question those systems because we are dependent upon them.  Therein lies the illusion.  The only thing I am truly dependent upon is God.  All things of this earth–ideas, possessions, relationships, etc., but if my connection to God remains intact then I know I am right where I am supposed to be.  The good news is that a relationship with God does not require me to abandon all those other things.  The relationship allows me to collaborate with a power greater than me and enable me to survive when one of those systems shifts or breaks down.  If I am not only identified with that system when it falls apart, I do not have to fall apart with it.  I can be affected by it, question it, or determine if I am as much a part of it as I thought I was. I do not have to become nothing.  God is not nothing.  God is everything.  My prayer for us today is that when we encounter a typical way of doing something, we have the courage to stop and ask, Is this what God would call me to do or am I just doing what I have always done?  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen