dailydatewithgod

The reality of a physical universe creates the perception of things inside versus outside of ourselves.  We understand ourselves to be having an internal and an external reality.  Yet it is our internal reality which sets up our perception of the external.  We all know this in some sense. If we have information in our minds, we connect with things we see in the world because we have a matching context.  When we are in a good mood, the number of things irritating us goes down.  It is more of a porous existence than we like to think.  One distinction made with humility is our ability to control what happens externally versus internally. Anyone who has ever tried to change another person or prevent rain knows the limits of capability in changing the external world.  What is in our control is in what we think about what is happening externally.  We can utilize our internal power to choose to focus our minds in one way or another.  We can decide to make it a good or bad thing out of it raining. We can choose to accept another person exactly as they are or wait for them to change into what we would like.  God invites us to acknowledge the personal power we have in our capability to change our internal perception  to dictate our external reality.  She encourages us to leverage our power by taking responsibility for it.  When we understand on a deeper level our ability to shift our perception and bring about our own peace of mind, the possibilities are endless.  It is easy when it something we do not mind shifting, it is harder when we are certain what is happening outside of us cannot be perceived differently.  In those times, I reach for the hand of God and ask, “Show me how you see this.  What might my heart be trying to open the eyes of my mind to see in this external experience?  Seriously!? How can this be anything I can perceive as differently?”