dailydatewithgod

In our world today most of us are in a hurry. It has become such a way of life we don’t realize that what may have started out as a practice in one area has seeped into our very perspective of how things are.  If we look at nature, we notice how rarely it seems to be in a hurry.  There is no rush to get to spring when in winter.  The trees aren’t howling to see the sun in winter.  The branches waiting to grow new flowers do not seem sad.  I am not sure where along the way we separated from the ease and confidence of things unfolding as they are meant to  I am not sure any of knows.  There are clearly elements in life where rushing is important.  When life is on the line, when we are in danger rushing is a must.  But most of the time, this is not our reality.  Being in the healthcare field I have come to know the distinction. Yet, I am not a physician or a nurse so I do not have their common default of thinking it only matters if it is life or death either.  The ease calling to us from our hearts is not to just sit by and watch life happen but the ease of vacillating between the times of rush and the time of slowness.  We need both forces present to make life work.  The key is trusting we have the ease within us to accurately determine which of those forces applies to this moment.  Because of the automatic nature of the way our bodies kick into gear when it comes to the rush, we think it is the more important force.  When we slow down we often feel lost or unsure.  We are able to hear the nonsense conversation in our heads and would rather distract ourselves by moving faster.  Ease is the space where we do not have to run from the moment just because it feels uncomfortable.  Ease is trusting in all forces of the universe existing for a purpose. It took me a long time on my daily dates with God to get used to the idea that there was not something I was missing out on and needed to rush to.  I still get tripped up, like this morning when my mind kept diverting my attention to the sound of my phone going off.  When my heart prompted me to bring my attention back to my breath, I saw it would be there for me when our date was done.  The ease coming from the heart’s reminder for us to breathe gives us the knowledge to know which force to engage with this moment.