dailydatewithgod

We are drawn to the familiar and the longer we live our minds will continue to filter what it encounters based on the familiarity. Scientific studies have shown that what keeps a person young is the experience of novelty.  In the space of variances we are back in a child mindset from which we can grow and learn.  One of the greatest gifts that has unexpectedly come from my daily prayer and meditation date with God is the realization of variances within the familiar.  When we learn to pause and breath, it opens our eyes and our hearts to see what we may have not seen before.  Practicing and using the eyes of our hearts gives us the power to witness all the variances which have been staring us in the face but we were blind to.  On automatic pilot we know who that person is, we understand what they are saying (they always say that anyway), and we know how to drive to work without thinking about it.  When we are present to the experience as it is, we find the various new road we could take to get to our destination or the layout of the houses and trees we drive past every day to work.  In the moment, we notice the variances of expression on the face of our loved one and we hear something different in their voice when they share with us their words and ideas.  God invites us to discover the variances in the familiar instead of allowing our automatic piloted mind to run the course of our day.  Taping into our hearts in the moment we are in gives us access to a whole new world we never knew was there all along.