dailydatewithgod

The evidence of the power of words is all around us.  We see it when we look at our beliefs.  A belief is a repeated thought.  It is a thought we attach meaning to and continually go back to as a source of our sense of ourselves.  The tricky part comes when we have beliefs that we are not aware of and ones we have adopted but did not author ourselves.  When we begin to listen to what we say out loud and what we tell ourselves we get an inkling as to what we actually believe.  If you aren’t connecting with what I am saying the next time you say something you always say like, “I’m so busy.”   Pause for a minute and ask yourself some questions: Is it true? What does it mean to be so busy?  Are there other words you might use to more accurately describe what it is you are expressing to yourself or others?  There is a common collective belief in western culture that we sound important when we indicate we are busy.  People say it all the time.  But what does it mean?  Does it mean we are overwhelmed?  Does it mean we mismanage our time?  Does it mean we are important?  What does it mean if we were tell someone we were not that busy?  Notice what happens in our tone and posture when we switch the conversation to not being busy.  What does that mean?  The power of belief is only effective in our lives if we know what it is we believe.  If when you go to question your beliefs you balk at the question all together, it may be an indication that you have no idea why you say or do what you do.  God invites us to question what we believe, even about God.  What does that word mean?  Do we believe in God? What does that look like?  What do we believe because we believe in God?  Is it a belief in our head or our heart?  What kind of message does believing in God convey to other people about the kind of people we are?  If we keep repeating the thoughts and they become beliefs and we define ourselves by them.  This is why we push back when people challenge them.  It is not an easy process to pause and take a look, but God invites us to do with curiosity and compassion. As part of our date time over the years, God invited me to peek closely at some of the beliefs I held for a long time and never questioned.  God helped me to wonder, if I was not always at fault, what might it mean about me?  If I am not busy today, am I still okay in God’s eyes even if not in the eyes of others?  Those others, by the way, are probably too busy to notice how busy I am. 😉