dailydatewithgod

When we think about what captures us and keeps our attention we find clues as to what we value.  The funny thing is that often we are so occupied by everyday worries and concerns that we spend our time thinking about those.  Many of them are things we cannot control.  Yet even those worries give us an indication of what is prominent in our hearts.  If our worries are about our job or the people close to us it tells us that they play a prominent role in our lives. If we concern ourselves with our bodies and our health it is clear those parts of our lives are prominent as well.  What we can use help in is how to focus the energy regarding the prominence.  Do we spend it in angst or in joy? Do we bring love and acceptance or fear and judgment?  We tend to think that we should distance ourselves from any kind of conflict, distress, things that make us angry, or cause us to feel pain.  Yet these can be our greatest teachers to lay for us what we are keeping prominent in our lives.  What we resist persists so actually we bring more focus to something the more we try to push it away and make it wrong.  What if we accepted worries, distress, conflict, anger as indications of what is prominent in our minds but has not yet found a way to connect to the heart?  What if we took the time to pause and listen beyond the noise of the commotion created by the “negative” aspects of worries and conflict?  What might we discover about our desire to take those prominent elements and bring them to our hearts for closer examination?