dailydatewithgod

After all these years of daily dates with God I find myself opening up to God’s perspective of learning from life.  I have always been curious, we all are, and saw myself as someone who is committed to growing and learning as I go through life.  It is one of the reasons that propelled me into the professional field of education.  In my heart there has always been an awareness of learning as much more than schools and books.  My relationship with God encourages me to look at my day to day experiences as lessons in love.  If I am in a good place I am willing to learn from everything.  If my heart is closed off and I perceive a lack of safety, my mind goes directly to survival.  In those moments there is no room to learn.  Like everything else in the flow and dance of life there is a time and a place to explore.  Deeper than just looking at the day-to-day experiences our hearts, if we are open to listening, will also call us to look at some of what we believe are the darker parts of our lives. Things from our past that we may have shut the door on.  Even being with experiences we do not want to think about let alone contemplate what can be learned about love from them.  Little by little God has opened the eyes of my heart to be willing to consider there may be something to salvage from those dark times.  As an incest and obesity survivor those are not spaces I enjoy reflecting on.  Strangely learning to salvage lessons of love from them brings me freedom.  Maybe it has something to do with our concepts of past, present, and future not being as fixed as we imagine.  Ultimately, it comes down to seeing as God sees.  God has greater insight into what can be salvaged by looking at it through the lens of love.  It is not about staying the past but being able to open my heart to find the power of love even in the dark.  It is about reckoning with my belief that there is no where God is not.  It is allowing God to use me to salvage the dark parts of my life by bringing it into the light of love.