dailydatewithgod

How do we ultimately know when something is real?  Is it because it is certain, authentic, legitimate, credible, accurate?  Is it real because we know it to be true?  How do we determine what constitutes as real for us?  Is it different for everyone?  If what I feel is real but it is not something felt by another person is it still real? Realness speaks to the concept of identifying our own truth.  There are many agreed upon truths which can become beliefs but if those are not seen as real are they still true?  We engage in a collective and individual experience of life simultaneously.  Many conflicts emerge when we do not agree on what is real.  The question becomes how can we honor what is real for us without discounting what is real for someone else?  There is a humility involved in recognizing that one person’s sanity is another person’s crazy.  How many individuals throughout time were called crazy or irrational because they had a different view of reality which turned out to be truer than the accepted reality at the time?  There were many years in the United States when it was unreal to think women would have the vote.  There were lifetimes when the whole world believed the earth really was the center of the universe.  I am sure it felt as real in the past to believe it as it feels unreal to believe it in the present.  To show up and make the contribution we are here to make with our lives we want to convey a level of realness.  People can spot a fake a mile away and it becomes to hard to keep up after a while.  Our real selves always manage to unveil themselves somehow.  God invites us to turn to our hearts to find the real nature of our being.  A nature not reliant on outside validation of what is real. It takes time and effort to weed out the accepted ideas and beliefs of what is real about us and anything for that matter from what is real for us as children of God.  It is the journey of a lifetime.