dailydatewithgod

As we wake up to the love God has for us we realize it is not God’s disengagement from which we have been suffering.  God wants nothing more than for us to claim the power of our hearts.  God placed within us the deep and profound capability to be a force for love in the world.  Yet if we go about our day without a sense of what we have to give, how can we share it?  If we do not claim the gift God has given us how will we know we have it to give to others?  In my daily prayer and meditation date with God, he shows me he is willing to be with me even in times when I do not want to be with me.  She stands firm in her view of my innocence and purity when all I feel is dark and angry.  God has already claimed us as the ones to play the role of living and growing in love with one another.  How long will we go without claiming it?  I was always grateful that unlike many people I saw wreaking havoc on the world, I did not suffer from being boastful or prideful about myself.  When I got into recovery I realized that suffering from low self-esteem and non stop self-criticism was the flip side of the same coin. Reverse pride is as much disconnected from God as self-righteousness or grandiosity.  It is not claiming who I truly am which is an extension of God, not for my own purposes but as a part of the greater story of love.  Stepping into claiming who we really are takes us out of feeling like we are less or more than others.  Claiming who we are allows us to be one with others.  We are all children of God.  Both the people we love and the people we cannot stand are children of God.  How close we want to be to others is directly proportional to their willingness to claim who they truly are. The same can be said for us.  In the meantime, God’s perspective will not waver.  Nothing we can think about ourselves or others ever changes God’s reality.