dailydatewithgod

One of the marvelous constructs of our minds is our imagination.  It has great depth and the creativity within it is amazing.  We can use it to escape as well as create. We often imagine all kinds of scenarios in our heads about things that are yet to happen.  Sometimes those projections can be positive and other times negative.  The brain does not distinguish between projection and reality. It will take these imaginations and run with them, put to work the possibilities of creating them and we are off to the races.  What then happens to the moment we are currently in?  What about this day?  What about where I am physically?  I am grateful for my mind’s capability of imagination for better or worse.  There was many a time when my current situation was not tolerable and I needed to escape in my mind.  As a child I did not have many other options.  But now I am an adult and I have other tools to face uncomfortable situations.  I can physically remove myself or speak up for myself as the situation calls for it.  I can ask God for the courage to be present in the discomfort or the eyes through which to see the gift of this day, this moment.  Then I can use the gift of my imagination to create a future that comes from a place of being at peace. My prayer for us today is that we ask for the courage to be in this day and the eyes to see the gifts and possibilities right in front of us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen