dailydatewithgod

A beautiful growth out of awareness is in the ability to respond.  As a result of my daily commitments to my dates with God I have developed a pause between what scientists call stimulus and response.  I am better able to embrace responsibility for my life and my decisions because I am utilizing my ability to respond.  Our automatic pilot is set up to react. In some ways one could argue that it is set up to re-enact.  We play out what we know. We act the way we have created habits around.  This both works for us and does not.  The ways that work are areas in which we like the fruits of our reacting.  The areas where we are troubled are those that may have worked at some point but now seem to have a counter effect greater than the amount they are effective.  Those areas in particular are the ones in which we can take responsibility for and choose to respond.  It used to be effective in my life at one point to stuff down my feelings and then eat over them.  When my weight became a burden, the food was still effective but I didn’t like the after effect.  However, it was not until the food ceased being able to numb me out and I was over 300 lbs that I needed was willing to concede that it was time to take responsibility and choose a response.  It took time to build that in and it is what God has shown me how to do over these many years.  Day by day abstaining from those foods which cycled me into reacting and the behaviors that numbed me out, I had to find another way.  My mentors taught me that the shift in mindset required would take action on my part and the first part was asking for God’s help.