dailydatewithgod

There is a way of seeing things on the outside of us that we can easily see as other.  While outer does not mean other we tend to think it does.  We perceive something as separate from ourselves as merely interacting with us but not being connected to us.  On the surface this is obvious.  I am one person in a body and unless we are embracing we are not connected.   Yet each of these outer interactions are interpreted by our inner point of view.  We are much more connected than we realize.  To other people, to situations, to ourselves.  It is convenient to label something as other simply because it is physically outside of us, but the real awareness consists of looking at where we can grasp the thing outside of us as a vehicle to provide information of the inner side of us.  We react to what someone says to us we think because of them.  Yet it is our interpretation of them we are reacting to.  Think of any time you have read a text message from someone and been offended by the tone.  What tone?  Even if your phone was able to put a voice print to it, it would not sound the way you played the tone in your head.  Or how often have you been bothered by one person who said excuse me and another person who said it you took it as them communicating effectively in a crowd?  The outer experience if we use it to its fullest capacity becomes a learning tool or awareness of our inner experience.  God invites us to take all these outer occurrences and use them as lessons of the moment.  What kind of space are we in internally when we interpret things with a grain of salt or manage not to take it personally?  How might we create more of that internal experience so we are not feeling as though life is jerking us around?