dailydatewithgod

Often there is one political candidate who captivates voters with the idea of going back to the way things used to be.  The way of life we had before the difficulties began.  Aside from the propensity of our minds to filter out and only remember the good parts of the past, it is actually not possible to go back.  We think we can reinstate the physical experience of the past because it was better than now.  It sounds romantic and easy.  We are drawn to that.  Given we live in an ever-expanding universe it is counter-intuitive to think going back is the best option.  Maybe the reason things fell apart is because they outlived their time, not because we messed up or got lazy.  We may have reached a point where we got as much as we could from the way things were.  What makes us think reinstating things that worked before is what is needed to face what we are facing today?  If we are paying attention we can draw on our state of being.  Maybe who we were before the difficulties began is the element we feel we are missing.  This does not require us to reinstate the circumstances. It calls for an awareness of who we are.  When we were thriving and strong before we got knocked around comes from the core of who we are.  We just came up against experiences for which we lacked preparation and got off track.  God invites us to reinstate our state of being into the new situation.  When we return to our hearts and garner the power within us we see ourselves facing today and the future and become more than we are now.  We grow from the difficulties because our capacity of character grows not because circumstances keep repeating themselves.  Renewing our confidence in our internal state of being is the kind of reinstating God sees us embodying.