dailydatewithgod

Life sometimes feels like a series of do-overs.  We like to think we are moving along a linear time line of events but it does not seem to be the case.  When we look at how the natural world operates there is very little that speaks the idea of a straight line trajectory. It is more cyclical like a clock, the seasons, and even the Earth and all the planets.  A cycle calls us to return over and over again to where we started.  Perhaps it is life’s way of allowing us to see our growth or demise depending on our perspective.  When I feel most stuck in life is when I perceive that I should be moving forward and it does not involve cycling back.  I think if I am returning to a point of origin I must not be getting something.  This harsh judgment does not allow for the beauty of the rhythm of life.  Just as I return to our dates each day and find God glad to greet me as though it has not been done before, I can learn to return to spaces and places in my heart and mind.  If I look at it from the perspective of what new understandings or capacities I have when I return, the returning takes on an entirely different experience. If I am not able to grow I will only see what I have seen before and it will feel like I am going in circles to nowhere. If I am willing to grow in love and light in the time of the cycle, the returning is as much a movement into something new as it is a reminder of how far I have come.