dailydatewithgod

Have you ever felt like there was a battle going on inside your head?  All these thoughts running around like a bunch of kids on a baseball field who don’t agree on the different calls from each team about who is safe and who wins and if they are playing right.  In those moments we need a neutral party to intervene.  I like to refer to this as the umpiring role of my heart.  Especially when the banter back and forth gets heated I need an umpire with enough courage, strength, and power to get my mind to a place of being open again.  In those moments of stress stemming from over-analyzing a situation, it can seem unimaginable that there would be a way to break away and make room for something else.  The breath becomes a handy option as it is going to be happening over and over.  I can latch on to it when prompted by my body to take a breath by placing my hand on my heart.  My heart then has a moment to connect in and provide the necessary umpiring to help me resolve the analysis paralysis.  I am so certain that if I think about something more and with a greater effort I can wrangle all those thoughts into some sort of cohesive experience.  Rarely does it actually work.  If I remember those thoughts are like the kids on the baseball field I can remember to invite in the kind umpire of the heart to do his or her work. The heart umpire provides some clarity.  It reminds me of the true rules, the ones keeping me connected to the truth of who I am and who I am called to be in the world. From there I can make choices from all these thoughts about the next best course of action.  It doesn’t mean I will do it perfectly as it is not even about perfection. It means at the moment I am in all of me is in the game of life and its choices.