dailydatewithgod

When I look at the pattern of my life, I see one steady advance after another is what has created change. I often think a change would come easier if it happened all at once.  Yet experience has taught me that while I did not know it at the time each steady advance on the path towards change was somehow necessary.  I could not know or predict which step might be most valuable and so taking the next indicated advance in front of me is what I chose to go with.  Even in moments when it seemed like a step back, it was actually an advance because it was a point of growth which facilitated a step in another area of my life which I did not know I would need.  I cannot determine if something is an advance by my judgment alone.  I need God’s help with how I see my life. I have spent a fair amount of time bemoaning that I wasn’t as far along as I thought I would be or pushing away the idea that I was back dealing with the same thing.  If I judged advances solely on their forward trajectory it would not work.  In my mind, life moves in a linear fashion.  God has shown me on our dates that life and nature are cyclical.  Even the long view of history shows us how life and cultural move cyclically. not just on the linear timeline where we see events.  The question is not why am I hear again but how did I advance within myself so I know how to keep living through this kind of experience?  Can I show life and myself that I have advanced as a person from the last time I was here?   The joy of growth and expansion of the heart is what makes whatever we are facing easier.  The shortest distance between two points might be a straight line but am I looking for the shortest life or the heart expanded life?