dailydatewithgod

How many things in our lives do we consent to and are not aware of it?  I have heard that silence is the voice of submission.  If we do not object to something, the implied understanding is our consent. Yet what about the things we have consented to on an unconscious level.  We notice it once in a while when we hear ourselves say something we do not really mean.  Or someone points out to us a particular behavior that we deny doing.  We have consented on some level to it being a part of who we are and we do not even know where it comes from.  Much of our being is like this because so much of our functioning is not chosen by us.  We do have the power of choice but so often we consent to give it away. It seems like too much work or unnecessary. Maybe we believe we are not capable of changing even if we wanted to.  Is that true or yet another idea we have consented to without realizing it? To question our way of being seems like a threat, or at least feels like one.  To engage in the unknown is alarming to us on a biological level because for survival purposes, the unknown could mean death.  Yet many of our consents are not life or death territory.  They are a day-to-day territory.  They are relationship territory.  They are the possible awakening of our heart territory. While our minds clampdown in fear, our hearts get excited to enter into the mystery.  The mystery which gives us the space to choose our consents.  We never know what awaits us if we take the chance and examine a consent we have been operating from unaware. God encourages us to peek into the mystery of ourselves by awakening our hearts to what our minds may have determined is a done deal.