dailydatewithgod

Perception is a funny thing.  It can take something completely innocuous and turn it into a bad or good experience based on our perception.  Martin Luther King once said, “There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.” As I began my recovery journey many years ago I heard a similar idea expressed in 12 step literature and really connected with it.  It allowed me to have the experience of being and feeling both good and bad at the same time.  We experience things as we are in the moment.  If I am focused on what I am grateful for and aware of I perceive the situations in my life as blessings.  If I am focused on all that seems to be going wrong and all the bad that exists in the world, I perceive situations as being negative and want to get out of them.  Growing up I would try to focus on the positive side of things and got labeled as a Pollyanna.  At the time it was a product of not having a skill set on how to be with the negative.  In order to focus on the positive I would discount and push down the negative.  I thought it could only be one or the other.  God helps me be with all of whom I am and experiencing.  Being in the space of blessing makes room for what is authentically happening while simultaneously making room for God to be present.  Being from blessing is a belief that no matter what is going on, God is constant.    No amount of negative emotions or experiences removes the power of love’s presence.  We are blessed because God is alive in us, through us, and always with us.  No outside circumstance, no matter how daunting can change who and what God is.