dailydatewithgod

It is easy to get caught up in doing or being a certain way without any connection to its origins. So much of our behavior and thinking is symptomatic of our upbringing, our environment, and our current surroundings.  You add in the fact that so much of what we actually do is part of a default mode we do not consciously choose and is it any wonder that we end up in life we are often confused by or feel disconnected?  The beauty in all of this is the moment we recognize our disconnected from our hub.  At first realization, it may seem devastating or defeating, but there cannot be a breakthrough without a breakdown.  We look around the world and we see it happening on a global level. So many of the structures and ideas we have relied upon and not questioned are falling apart.  People are beginning to question the status quo.  It can be scary.  It can incite the need to go within and create more control in our own lives.  Our inclination to go within is leading us to freedom but only if we use the propulsion to go within as an opportunity to explore the hub of the truth of who we are in our hearts and not just to hunker down in the dark. What happens outside of ourselves presents an invitation to get to know our insides.  We can make it about the outside, but nothing changes.  It is not until we explore the hub of who we are and get to know it with all its quirks and fascinating and sometimes ugly twists and turns can we know how to handle the outside.  Tending to our hub and reconnecting with the truth of who we are changes the lens through which we see the outside world.  It wasn’t until I faced the hidden and feared parts of myself that I was able to get past it to reach the hub of truth residing in my heart.  Even after concerted effort for 17 plus years of reconnection something outside of me can wake me up to how I have managed to get disconnected again. God has taught me on our daily dates to pause, breathe, and just notice what is happening.  I do not need to apply a filter of judgment, God isn’t.  Instead, I get to acknowledge what happened, notice how it draws me closer to the hub which contains a previously unknown understanding about the nature of love in me, and look again with new eyes as I make any necessary reparations.