dailydatewithgod

How many times have you found yourself caught up in an idea or upset by something that someone else does?  It just gets you going and you all of a sudden are focused on the idea or the behavior and lose track of an essential question.  How is this relevant to me?  What pertinence does this have in my life or to me personally?  We can equally go the other direction and determine that many things are not pertinent in our lives because they are too overwhelming to think about or we feel above them.  Again, we lose sight of an important question, is this relevant in my life today?  Pertinence is a multilevel decision.  Rarely are things black and white.  If we approach the question of pertinence in our lives we can not do so just from a thinking mind.  We are also invited to do so with a feeling mind, the one called the heart.  If we find ourselves emotionally hooked into something and feel it is relevant to us simply because we have an opinion of it is one layer.  The deeper layer is investigating why we got hooked by the thing or idea in the first place.   Maybe there is something in that person’s behavior which we are so bothered by that reminds us of us.  Maybe we care more about this person than we realized. Our hearts call upon to take a closer look at what is coming up for us in the experience we have now made pertinent to us.  Equally, the things we find overwhelming may still be pertinent to us but we need to go within and determine what kind of role we can actually play instead of just choosing to dismiss its pertinence in our lives.  These are the quandaries we can bring to God.  When we pause, take a breath, engage our hearts readying ourselves for a deeper conversation with these pertinent aspects, we can ask God for help.