dailydatewithgod

It is good to know what we like and what we do not like.  It is helpful to spend our time and energy with things and people with which we feel connection and want to contribute towards.  Our energy grows and expands with our intention and attention.  Our focus and attention is affected by our attitudes and approaches to life.  In theory, the idea of only focusing and putting attention on the things we like, feel connected to, or want to contribute towards makes the most sense.  Unfortunately, theories are not reality.  We cannot go through life never encountering aversions.  Our hearts encourage us to embrace the aversions of our lives with the same interest as the things we find delightful.  It is not to make our lives difficult but to show us that even the things or people we are averse to can teach us something about ourselves and the scope of love.  We do not need to torture ourselves but allow ourselves to be exposed to and open to what we might learn from our aversions.  Our aversions can teach us about our likes.  Our aversions can open our eyes to the presence of love in a person or situation we were certain love did not exist and expose us to a different idea of God.  When we barricade ourselves up out of a desire to protect our hearts we misleadingly believe we are creating greater growth in love. Inadvertently, we end up protecting ourselves from love and aversions.  If we trust the process of life enough to know that if we breathe in the aversion we will eventually breathe it out, we can trust that nothing will drive our core life enhancing, love expanding reality out of who we are.  Nothing outside of us can destroy the core strength of love God created within us.