dailydatewithgod

Why is the idea of second chances so remarkable?  What about third and fourth chances?  Who determined that the first chance is the best or the most important?  God invites us with many chances to open our minds and hearts to grasp how much we are loved and cared for.  God does not care which chance is the one that awakens us.  It is about being able to allow it to be real for us. Sometimes it takes getting a sense through seeing, hearing, and experiencing love in many facets over time.  There comes a moment when we can no longer deny the truth of the power of love.  For people like me who were so busy expecting love to show up in a specific way I probably missed a dozen chances God had offered me to let it in.  I could not wrap my head around the idea that God’s love does not operate by human ideas alone.  Our worldly expressions of love give us an inkling as to the profound nature of God’s love but not the full picture. I can only describe it as first encountering the chances to allow love in as it was presented to me. Then venturing past what I was told and shown to see if it was real.  Next coming to terms with its limitations and untruths.  This was confusing and painful and I wondered what the true nature of love could possibly be.  At some point during one of these breakdowns of understanding, when my mind had given up and my heart felt smashed into a million pieces, another chance at encountering love appeared.  I was finally ready, having let go of my ideas and expectations to allow a profound sense of something I cannot really describe with words to resonate deep inside of me.  This hundredth chance was used by God to allow me to see not only am I loved but I AM love.  We all are.  Our daily dates serve as a quiet reminder because I forget, that even when I am not aware of it.  The power of love is always resonating within me.  We get a chance every day and every moment to embrace this truth of our Creator, but sometimes it takes the one thousandth chance to be open to it.