dailydatewithgod

When we take a moment to think about it we can all name places we enjoy being. It could be our home, workplace, a space in nature, a particular site of history, a worship space,  or even in the presence of a particular person or people. Some of those places for me are standing on the shore and watching the ocean waves, spending time with my best girlfriends, in the a Catholic Church, or dancing. When we are in a place where we feel accepted and can breathe there is a sense of safety which engenders authenticity and freedom.  A common license plate frame I have noticed while sitting in Los Angeles traffic is, “I’d rather be . . .” The places where we can be ourselves brings a softness and an openness to life. The reason we connect to these places outside of ourselves come from an inner knowing of the same experience of place in our hearts. It is part of our design to want to be ourselves and be with ourselves. God invites us to take a look at how we can bring the outside experience of place we love being by reconnecting to it in our hearts.  God knows by so doing it will resonate strongly in our being. This enables us to be in that place because we are being it wherever we go, even when sitting in traffic. We no longer have to depend upon the physical construct of the actual place. We are being the same presence as the experience of those places in and of ourselves no matter where our body is in the moment.