dailydatewithgod

As we travel through this thing called life we encounter special experiences and people that leave a mark.  Our lives are somehow altered by our experience of them.  We recall them with fondness and in some cases cannot imagine how our lives would be if we had not met the person or had the experience.  In some cases, we make a big deal of recalling these experiences by celebrating them once a year or holding on to a physical object which reminds us of it or them.  This is how we create rituals in our lives.  It is built into our storytelling inclination as human beings to honor such events and people.  It is not about pomp and circumstance or making a show of it for others.  It is about recalling a time or an experience where we connected to ourselves.  The reason we are so impacted by these people and times that we want to hold them in a place of honor is that it reached something deep within us.  Perhaps it was an unexpected connection we did not know was there.  God invites us to continue to cultivate this honoring of life within ourselves.  If we did not have it within us, we would not be able to see it outside of us.  Honoring the truth of who we are at our core transforms us into being the truth of who we are.  In a world full of masks and machinations about what it means to be alive, our hearts live the fullness of life one beat at a time. Without the core of who we are none of it would mean anything.  What would it look like to be honoring the reality of our true selves?  How might honoring this within us shape the eyes through which we see others and life’s circumstances?  These are the questions baffling to the mind but delighting the heart.  When I spend time on my date with God and allow the world outside to grow quiet, I am reconnected to the honoring of life itself which God has designed within each of us.