dailydatewithgod

We have a tendency to pride ourselves on our clarity and knowing. We value people who have high degrees and speak as though they know the answers.  We place importance on facts and less importance on opinions.  I wonder how many facts started out as opinions. We determined because we believe there is safety in certainty that to have a clear answer is better than a hodgepodge of information.  The mishmashes we exist in are making us uncomfortable because we are more interested in it looking like we have it all together rather than vulnerably revealing the jumbled way we feel most of the time.  The funny thing is even when we have the answer or follow along with the socially acceptable fact we come across a contradiction.  We are often faced with times when the supposed right answer is not the right one at the moment.  We fall back again to our mishmash of understanding and feel lost.  If we are the least bit inclined, as I am, to be hard on ourselves we figure we must have messed it up.  God invites us in the moments of a mishmash to ease the focus from our ego-driven mind to prove how right we are to our hearts where there is space to learn.  The mishmash experience is an opportunity if we allow it to be, for opening ourselves up to discovery.   If we remember to use our breath to engage the curiosity of our hearts it will travel to the mind and open the eyes in our head to see something new. A mishmash perspective is not a failed one.  We are not wrong for being a jumble of thought and wonder unless we deem ourselves as only worthy when we have the right answer.  A mishmash is an invitation to travel a little further with questions and curiosities as we open ourselves up to what the possible right answer is for the moment we are in.