dailydatewithgod

God is now. God is present. God is here. We seem to spend a lot of time focusing on there.  When do we get there?  Go over there. Are you there? Look under there. What’s in there? Who is there?  What will happen when we are there? And the expression, wherever you go there you are.  Perhaps we must go the path over there or look under there or get to there before we are ready to let go and be here.  When we are here, we no longer need to concern ourselves with what is over there or under there or where.  Being here is the only place we can be.  When we let go of needing or wanting to be there instead of here, there is much less to carry in word and being.  But it is not as the spiritual by-pass story would tell us:  just be here and be zen about it.  Sometimes, often times in my experience,  it takes going there and looking there to realize I am and always have been here.  With the patience and perspective of God we can travel over there and wonder what is there.  It is in the exploration of the there that we find here.  We do not know what we are seeking until we walk the path.  The beauty, magnificence, innocence, and simplicity of God teach us that when we connect there with our hearts we are here and always have been.

My prayer for us is the wonder to explore what is over there or under there and allow ourselves to be shown what God already knows, that whatever is there is here in our hearts today.