dailydatewithgod

We think we want to know how it all turns out.  We think whatever we are facing in life will go easier if we just know how it will be when we are done going through it whatever experience we are having. These assurances are not offered by life.   The funny thing is the one end we do know how it turns out is the end of our life.  Life ends in death. Yet we do all kinds of things to avoid it, pretend its not there, stave off it’s coming, and so on. If we behave this way when it comes to the biggest known possible, what do we think we will do with other kinds of known endings?  Often when we are focused on the outcome of a particular desire, we disconnect from what it is we truly want.  We get tuned out from what is happening beneath the surface. We focus on the result not realizing what we want is not what we think we want.  What we desire is the feeling we think the thing or experience will generate.  The true desire beneath wanting to know how something will end is about wanting to feel safe and okay.  We desire to know whether or not we will survive what may seem at the moment to be unbearable.  We want to know we will be okay whether or not we succeed or fail at a particular task.  We want to know if we will have to redefine who we know ourselves to be based on how whatever it turns out. Our mind is trying to configure a way to get our hearts online.  What if we started with our hearts?  What if we connected to the deeper knowing within ourselves which contains the truth of who we are?  If we were to turn our focus from what it looks like on the outside to what is generated from within us then the desire for things to turn out a particular way leaves us.  It does not mean it is not okay to desire certain outcomes.  It means we will be doing ourselves a favor by using our mind’s desires as a wake-up call to initiate the feelings we are intending to generate. How tightly would we need to hold on to the outcome of a particular desire if we already possessed what was underneath the desire? God invites us to a cooperative experience between the desires of our minds and the desires of our hearts.  They are both looking for the same ending.   It is the ending that reminds us of what God already knows about who we truly are.