dailydatewithgod

There is information that we receive in our minds and we think it is a direct ingestion into our minds.  More accurately, what we perceive in our minds is an interpretation of what we are picking up through our senses.  Specific facts or information spoken to us are filtered through our hearing and incorporate the tone and speed of the information.  Our visual sense picks up information on who the person is who is speaking.  Our perception is also influenced by what we are feeling ,smelling, and tasting at the time we receive the information spoken to us.  We are not a computer that receives cold data.  Everything goes through our sensing.  On my daily dates, God has taught me to pay attention to what I am sensing that may have nothing to do with what is actually happening.  Our reaction to an experience is not based on the actual event, it is based on what we are sensing while the event is occurring.  Our mind then interprets the situation and we form our version of what happened.  This is how two people can be present in the same situation and have completely different versions of what happened. If we attune ourselves to our inner sensing we can develop an awareness of what our default perceptions are.  As we grow in knowledge of how we are operating we can make a realistic attempt to choose to put our default aside and sense what is happening with a newness. Pausing and taking a breath can be the portal to paying attention.  God wants us to have the opportunity to embrace being in the moments we are in and sense them for what they are, not what we already know.