dailydatewithgod

We experience ourselves in pieces. It may sound funny until you hear yourself say, “A part of me . . .”  The question is which part of you?  Aren’t we whole beings?  Don’t we exist within a complex system of life?  Why do we separate out our thinking from our feeling?  Or our physical from our mental?  Are they not all part of the entirety of who we are?  One of the perspectives that God brings to the table is the ability to see ourselves as whole.  God created the entirety of who we are.  It is the lens through which love exists.  There is no part of who we are that has not been created by God. Even the parts we do not like.  All of our parts work together to create the entire experience of life.  We find it helpful to categorize them and break them apart yet over and over we discover how interconnected they are.  Often we think if I could just get rid of this part of my personality, physical nature, or idea all would work out fine.  Sometimes we do that but it does not turn out like we imagine because we could not conceive of its impact on the entirety of our experience of life.  On my daily dates with God I am given an opportunity to see the value of the whole of who I am.  I have the chance to pause, go within my heart and see myself and all of life as an entire system.  A whole system created out of love. There are seasons and fluctuations, just like our breath, which make some parts stronger than others at different times.  What we view as a bad part of ourselves may be the thing holding something good about ourselves in place.  God encourages us to embrace the entirety of who we are and of life through the lighted lens of our hearts.  Choosing to see the entirety of ourselves as a dance of many parts brings the peace of our soul to the forefront.  It gives us the grace of acceptance of the parts we think we would be better without.