dailydatewithgod

We don’t get through this life on our own.  We can be very resourceful and figure things out but ultimately we will also benefit from interaction with others.  Given the design of the life of a human and how a baby cannot be self-sustaining, it makes sense that so much of our growth comes from interacting with others.  We learn from them, we grow from and with them, and we figure out who we are from our interplay with others. Our self-knowledge comes not because others tell us who we are but because we get to see who we are being when we are around them.  We do not live at the effect of others, we notice what it is about others which generates an energetic reaction.  We think that others make us feel or do things, but this is not so.  We may find ourselves in a reaction and not know how we got there, but somewhere along the way, we made a choice.  The choice may be hidden because it was patterned in us during a formative time of our lives, but it is ours now.  The reactions we are experiencing allow us to wake up and learn to investigate who we have become and how much it is aligned or misaligned with who we are at our core.  If the reaction lines up with our own internal truth then we can honor it and be grateful for it.  If it is not we can thank the reaction for occurring and ask God for the courage to take a deeper look at what it is designed to teach us. We think it is easier to blame it on others but that is a protective mechanism coming from a place of fear. A fear we most likely were taught in some way of drawing closer to ourselves and owning our power. God invites us to pause and look at our reactions-good, bad, or indifferent with the heart’s lens of curiosity.  When we can pause and take a breath, we begin to hear the heart’s desire to show us how to respond instead of reacting.