dailydatewithgod

There are many things we are asked to agree to in our lives.  Some we can say we are aware of and yet so many of the agreements we hold are not ones that we recognized as agreeing to in the moment.  When we formulate ideas and stories based on circumstances we form agreements.  Going forward we match similar feelings or circumstances to those same agreements. The baseline narrative that is running most of our lives is those which were laid down as children.  We did not know what we were agreeing to only that we needed to be in accordance with those in authority.  It meant adopting a way of being and living that did not necessarily resonate with us except in that it ensured our survival.  The good news is we get to grow up.  We get to pause and pay attention to how those agreements are showing up in our lives.  We get to question if the agreements agree with our present circumstances.  We get to find out what those agreements do for us and to us.  We get to decide going forward if they are in accordance with the truest parts of ourselves.  As children, we may have adopted the agreement that we were not enough. Circumstantially this may have been true. Whatever was going on, we were smaller, not able to earn money to buy things, live on our own, or have a certain level of agency in our lives. This might cause us to feel not enough or as though we were not doing enough.  We did not have the wherewithal to push against the authority figures in our lives regardless of the kind of relationship with had with them because to do so would jeopardize our livelihood. We know it is an agreement when we see we have carried it with us into the present day.  The present time when we are bigger, able to earn money and have a sense of personal autonomy and authority over our own lives.  The more accurate question is the agreement we made as a child to ensure our survival is in accordance with who we have been created by God to be.  Is it in accordance with the truth which lies in our hearts?  Is it in accordance with what we have going on in our lives today?  God invites us to be with ourselves in the present moment of our breath and decide if what we are agreeing to is in accordance with what is most true about ourselves and our lives in the present.