dailydatewithgod

Commitments are harder than resolutions.  Perhaps this is why so many people make resolutions at the start of a new year that do not hold past the first few weeks.  Are we resolving to not eat a certain thing or committing to being a healthy person.  Which one of those do we want to be bound to? Commitments have a binding nature that wraps intention and attention together to form energy around which something is going to occur.  When we look at the binding elements of our lives they are the necessary things.  The things we bind to ourselves are hard to release ourselves from unless we have a commitment to do so.  We can tell them by how we identify them.  I am bound to the identity of daughter, coworker, woman, intelligent and sensitive personality. While I cannot alter the titles placed on me, I can commit to binding myself to an understanding of what it means to be a daughter or coworker.  I can put forth the intention and focus my attention on the kind of daughter, coworker, or even sensitive person I want to be.  The deeper question is what is driving what we are bound to?  Is from our hearts or our heads that we are binding our sense of self?  It is easy and takes little commitment to be the role we are given as a category of person.   But in our hearts, what is the essence of those roles that are binding in the tapestry of our lives?