dailydatewithgod

There are so many wonderful things and experiences in this world it is hard not to want to partake of them all.  There are also many not so wonderful things and experiences of this world that it is hard not to try and keep from facing.  The funny part about all of this is depending on who you are, where you are, the context in which something occurs this can be the same thing.  How is it that one person’s joy is another’s misery?  How is it one person’s junk is another person’s treasure?  It boils down to how we identify ourselves, how we perceive ourselves, and what we make it mean that we are experiencing what we are experiencing.  There is this funny little experiment we can do to get another perspective. We can remove ourselves from the equation.  How might I view this experience if it were not me involved in it?  How might it be different if I removed the judgment about what was happening?  What could I learn from this if I experienced the removal of connection to the outcome of this experience?  How might my experience be enjoyable if I did a removal of the outcome?  In recovery, they talk about being able to live life on life’s terms.  Not my terms.  Not your terms.  Life’s terms.  When I look around at how life works, how the natural world functions, and remove myself from the equation, I see everything.   Everything comes and goes.  Everything is important at the moment and not important the next moment.  There is an ebb and flow that occurs for which I do not play a role.  When operating from a place of removal of my thinking about who I am and what I should or should not be experienced and just be, it is a whole different world.  Our minds are attached to who we think we are.  Our hearts invite us to play in the removal of our thinking and see what might be there for us to discover in life.  Then we can discover who we are being in our hearts one breath and at a time.