dailydatewithgod

I thought for years that being harsh with myself was what motivated me to get things done.  I was certain if I could just give myself a harder time that I  could be more successful and produce more results.  I would somehow measure up.  Recently I came across a quote that asked, “When you are at war with yourself, who wins?”  I found out the hard way that beating myself down with harsh words and criticisms just drove me further and further away from myself and others.  It was not until I found myself winning the war with myself by losing myself that I began to look for an alternative.  On our daily dates, God shows up with a forgiving gentleness with fierce confirmation of the belief of my wholeness despite how broken I feel.  Day in and day out, I learned to sit in the presence with my breath-taking in the gentle nature of God’s love.  I realized by the mere fact that I could breathe meant I too had some of this gentleness within me.  A little at a time I could fan the flame of the gentleness an cultivate a fierce presence of love in me that would extend out to others.  Gentleness does not mean being weak, it means being connected to love from which I was created one day at a time.