dailydatewithgod

Stopping to take a closer look at our lives is something we do not do until we experience a disturbance.  “No news is good news“ and “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” are expressions we have heard before. Life has a way of getting our attention when things seem to fall apart.  When our world view is disrupted we sit up and take notice.  Pain and discomfort can be great motivators. Sometimes in an effort to move through the discomfort we take on the stance of getting rid of the current arrangement.  We rationalize that because it did not sustain through the disruption, it must be flawed.  If we are looking at the rubble of relationships and frayed edges that are just about to break off entirely, it may be a good idea to chuck the whole deal.  More often than not there are indications before the major disturbance that something is not working in the arrangement of our lives.  It is as quiet as a whispering wind coming through one or two small experiences that show us some flaws in the arrangement.  But we push it aside as merely an anomaly or being the fault of something outside of ourselves and move forward.  What if we took those opportunities to take a closer look at the arrangement in our lives when queued subtly by life?  What if all that is being asked of us is to make adjustments to the arrangement by incorporating some perspective from our hearts?  It can take a great deal of courage to adjust an arrangement than get rid of it all together.  What if in our hurry to get through the discomfort of change, we rush to make the existing arrangement all wrong when it is not?  Isn’t this what we do with people and ideas we have deemed as others?  What if the arrangement is a part of who we are that only wants to know of the love dwelling in our hearts?  Maybe we are being asked to bring love to a part of the arrangement of ourselves that has never received it.