dailydatewithgod

To live life we need courage.  Courage is not the absence of fear but the decision to go ahead anyway.  Courage comes from the heart in meaning and in energy.  To develop courage we are asked to use the muscle of our hearts.  We walk through life faced with many different circumstances and experiences.  Some we struggle with, others come easy.  All of them we are handling in the way we know how.  Human beings do what they know.  Unless we are open to learning different ways we live by our defaults.  This is not a good or bad thing, it is just the reality.  If we want to handle life differently, if we want to grow our courage, we have to step out of our default programming.  We need to be willing to stretch ourselves and be uncomfortable.  Learning to live and breathe through moments of discomfort or unfamiliarity which breeds fear by its nature, requires us to rely on our hearts.  God instilled in us the ability to handle all that we are presented with in life.  Handling it may mean asking for help.  Handling it may mean we are successful on the first attempt. Handling it may mean admitting we do not have what it takes and we do not know what to do.  Our hearts which give us the power to handle it from where we are in the moment does not judge us.  Our minds tell us we are handling things poorly.  Our minds look for ways to get out of handling the discomfort and default back to what it knows as normal.  God encourages us to lean and breathe into our hearts for handling all we are given in life. Our hearts know intuitively how and when to engage the mind without judgment so as to create a cooperative experience of handling this moment.