dailydatewithgod

The world is so loud sometimes it is overwhelming.  With so many voices and visuals garnering for our attention, it is hard to distinguish which ones to allow in closer.  God longs to be close to us.  An intimate relationship with our Creator is what we are made for.  Perhaps that is why God uses intimations to speak to the inner most parts of ourselves.  These inklings, whispers, and notions which inform our reality are only accessible when we slow down and get quiet.  When we engage in prayer and mediation of any form we are doing just that.  All these various religious traditions are designed to draw us into an intimate relationship with God where she can speak in intimations.  He will have our attention because of the intimate nature of our experience with ourselves and God.  The approach to this is not limited to specific rituals or services, it only requires a pause.  Over the years of my daily dates with God I have come to cultivate the pause throughout my day which allows me to hear and sense the intimations coming to me from God.  We have an intimate relationship which has allowed me to bare open all the parts of myself with a willingness I can only describe as miraculous.  The Christian mystic and Carmelite nun, Teresa of Avila writes in her book Interior Castle of the stages of our union with God.  She describes it as the passage of our soul through several stages to reach the deepest relationship with God.  We are all receiving invites from God all day long to embark on this intimate journey but because of the intimation style of communication it sometimes gets lost in the noise.