dailydatewithgod

It is important for us to keep growing.  If we aren’t growing we are dying.  I have learned on my daily dates with God how to be with being uncomfortable.  It is not easy just to sit and meditate, especially when one first starts out.  There is a lot of noise going through one’s head.  Sometimes it still goes on during our date.  The discipline of showing up each day no matter what knowing I was offering that time to spend with my Creator made me willing.  This in turn trained me on how to handle uncomfortable situations and experiences. I do not like them but see how they enable me to grow.  The funny thing is we do not have to seek out discomfort.  It is actually very feasible.  It is present everywhere.  As human beings we just usually opt for the comfort otherwise known as the familiar.  We deserve it.  We work so hard.  Insert usual excuses here.  The brilliance of an uncomfortable experience is that it masks itself as impossible.  We can’t deal with the feelings.  We don’t like that person.  Our mind’s will tell us a million different reasons because the discomfort is usually unfamiliarity. Unfamiliarity breeds fear.  Fear kicks in survival mode.  Recognizing the feasibility of the situation is what occurs when we stop and take a breath.  We recognize that we can not only survive the unfamiliar, we can grow from it.   No thought or feeling can kill us.  The stories we tell ourselves about how the future will work out if we allow ourselves to face the discomfort are seriously disproportionate to reality.   Have you noticed that things do not turn out as bad as we imagine they will?  God reminds us in our hearts when we breathe that things are way more feasible if guided by the heart.