dailydatewithgod

When we get weighed down by the everyday little things of life it is hard to remember to wonder.  Our breath provides us a quick reminder to stop and take it in and let it out over and over throughout the day.  Have we lost the connection to our phenomenon?  Have we forgotten where we come from or how we were created?  Of course, we have. It happens. Why do you think we have to breathe so often each day?  Each breath is an opportunity to step back into the awareness of our phenomenal nature.  When we spend time in nature or just even glance at the majesty of the ocean, the peaks of the mountain, the colors of the butterfly, or how the wind moves the clouds, we step into the phenomenon of creation.  In that moment of breath’s invitation to pause, we have access yet again to the still place within us which remembers we too were created the same way.  We get lost in our outside coverings and the labels our brain places on ourselves and others.  But in the moment of recognition of truth, we can marvel at the phenomenon we are.  God would not take great care in designing the grooves on a leaf but then leave a part of us less than as intricately wondrous.  Just because we cannot see what God sees or know the heart of God at the moment of our creation, does not mean we are not the phenomenon of God. The eyes of our mind only tell us part of the story.  I do not see the roots of the tree in my front yard but I know they are there.  It would not be able to stand tall and spread its branches without falling over. It would not keep growing if it was not getting nutrients from the soil and its connection to other trees. We are rooted in the phenomenal nature of God and our phenomenons ourselves.  We are created to serve as living breathing evidence of the love from which we were created.  We would not be able to grow in love as a standing reminder of the power of love no matter what we experience in this life if we were not rooted in the phenomenon of God’s love.