dailydatewithgod

So much of life happens in whispers.  We probably don’t notice how the tree branches touch each other in the wind. It escapes our attention to how a car passing by a pedestrian looks different for the pedestrian than it does for the driver.  Like Ferris Bueller advises: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Unlike Ferris, we do not have to skip school or work to enjoy it.  Having a day off of work is great and I enjoy stepping away from the usual day to day agenda, but if I were to allocate stopping and looking around at life only on days off, I would miss so much.   My daily dates with God, unknowingly have provided the in the moment capability to make things stop.  Each time I take a breath, there is a stop.  Each in stops for the out and vice versa.  Each conversation exchange with another person is a series of stops.  How many of those stops do we invite our heart’s eyes to look around?  Or are we stuck in our heads thinking of what comes after the stop?  Honestly, sometimes I am so in my head, I am thinking of what comes after the next stop while I am still in motion.  Stopping and looking around is only the answer if we use it for the opportunity it can be.  Only when we tune into the energy of our hearts can we use the stops instead of the stops using us.  The looking around comes when we take the stop provided by nature and use it to open the eyes of our hearts and see the depth the life we are in at the moment. The moment before we judge whether it is good or bad.  The moment before we choose where to go.  The moment before deciding if we want to look around. All of the moments of our lives are a series of stops and starts.  How fast might we perceive life to move if we utilized the stops in our lives to look around and see with the eyes of our hearts?