dailydatewithgod

We have this relationship with our mind.  We are constantly engaging cognitively with life even when we are unaware of it. The myriad of thoughts running through our mind are the filters through which our body processes our reality.  There is no way we can be aware of all of our thoughts, it would overwhelm us.  The way to start is by paying attention to the reappearing ones.  If you spend any time in silence you quickly become aware of your thoughts.  It can be like having a radio station on 24-7 in between your ears.  I’ll never forget the day I was in my car and I reached over to turn the radio off and realized it was not on. The radio I wanted to turn off was the one in my head.  The thoughts it was running were on what I call the KFCK station.  (insert expletive FM station).  Does that one ever play in your head?  I was giving myself a hard time about something I said to someone else and was replaying in mind all the while coming up with multiple scenarios of how I could have done something different.  Each option was getting tossed aside as not good enough for the DJ. Because God does not quickly run to shut off the KFCK station, I am able to play it on our date.  God invites me to breathe into the thoughts spewing from the DJ as though it does not apply to me.  God shows me how to place my hand on my heart and listen from there to what is not being said.  She wants me to see the painful thoughts are just a way of letting me know there is some hurt and pain.  The thoughts cannot do anything besides provide an indication of how I am feeling.  Once I settle into my heart space there is room for spirit through the breath to embrace the hurt and pain and find a path of healing. God has taught me the value of paying attention to these thoughts without judgment and ask them, as though a child, “Why have you come today?  What are you here to teach me?” Then there is room for love to grow in me and from me.