dailydatewithgod

Our eyes look outward and because we are so dependent upon them to make it around our world we tend to think that the answers to everything we need lie outside of us. In moments and times of darkness we find ourselves confused because we do not have our eyes to guide us.  This can be scary the first time we experience it which is why many children are afraid of the dark.  People who have lost someone close to them worry that they will forget about them because they do not see them anymore.  You may be familiar with the expression, “out of sight, out of mind.”  We cherish having pictures of people and experiences so we can see them and remember them.  Yet our memory exists on more than just a visual physical level because life is experienced on more than just the physical realm.  A time of darkness in our lives is a great gift because it causes us to stop looking to the external for the answers.  The only place we are given to focus in the internal.  When we find ourselves looking internally we cannot rely upon our physical sight.  Instead, we connect with that which operates without the benefit of physical sight.  In my daily prayer and meditation date which takes place in the early often dark moments of the day just before the dawn.  Part of my meditation my eyes are closed and I focus on my breath.  I breathe to connect with the energy flowing through my heart.  God draws me to look to the internal reality where God originated my creation and use it to guide my vision for the day.