dailydatewithgod

We can choose what we bring to the world.  We can choose what we allow ourselves to focus on.  We can choose how and when to love.  We can choose what kind of life we want to live.  We do not always get to choose the journey or the path along the way. We do not get to choose the circumstances all the time but how we view them is our choice.  We can decide to infuse the love within us in any given situation or towards any particular person.  By infusing the truth of who we are wherever we find ourselves we choose the experience we are having.  Sometimes we do not wish to bring our best selves to something and so we find it infused with less than what is considered ideal or expected circumstances.  But if we are choosing it then at least we can find joy in that.  As an incest survivor I did not choose the circumstances under which I experienced myself as a victim.  It took me a long time and a lot of missteps but once I realized that I can now choose to show up for the consequences of that experience I am no longer a victim.  I do not always have to like it.  I do not always want it but I am clear if it wasn’t that it would be something else.  I have yet to come across anyone on this planet who has somehow managed to not have to face undesired circumstances.  There are times when walking this journey I have chosen to infuse the best of who I am.  Other times, I did not.  Because God is who God is and love is what God is infusing in any situation, when I turn to see God’s view I see I was learning where love is needed.  I can identify those moments when I feel I have no love to infuse and reach for the hand of God.  I can choose to rely on God to be God and do the infusing.