dailydatewithgod

It’s hard to imagine why we need to obscure things from ourselves. In general, we tend to think we know ourselves pretty well. The truth is the most of what we know falls into two categories: things we know and things we know we don’t know.  A much larger chunk of reality exists in a third category: things we don’t know that we don’t know. In other words, what we are not aware of as something to be aware of. Here is where the obscuring works the best. It is not intentional on our parts to be obscuring but it happens simply by nature of reality.  We cannot know what we do not know that we don’t know.  This is where our engagement in relationships with others is our greatest tool.  We are designed as humans who are purposed to grow and learn in love to spend our lives discovering all the places and space we could not imagine love would be present.  Ultimately the obscuring is how we manage the uncertainty of living life.  It is comfortable to stay in the knowing what we don’t know. If we were able to be fully present in every breathing moment, we would be enlightened masters.  But we are in these temporal bodies and many of us have turned off our awareness of the information they provide as to our emotional and mental reality.  We can easily be consumed by the realities of what it takes to get up and move through life physically that we never get to those deeper layers.  Until our physical experience causes us to stop and take notice.  What is happening physically can be obscuring the emotional, mental, and spiritual capacities if we let it.  Or, we can choose to stop taking the physical experience and reality as all there is and go deeper. Pause and see what it is obscuring. Step out of the knowing what we don’t know part.  Enable ourselves to discover some of the things we don’t know that we don’t know.  Those mysteries provide insight into how we can grow our hearts.  The eclipses and veils of a physical ailment or difficult interaction with another human being, can be touched upon below the surface if we are willing to open our hearts and see versus just using our eyes.  Obscuring if understood as a mechanism through which we can know there is always more to know is not a bad thing.  It is entrusting that when we need to know, the obscuring will fall away.