dailydatewithgod

We place great value on our thoughts and ideas.  They are creative and numerous.  We never seem to run out of them.  We pride ourselves on the accumulation of them and get accolades for spending years learning about them and memorizing them in the form of degrees and authority. Our mind is a marvelous and essential element of what makes us who we are and rightly deserves the attention and power it is given. The fact that we hold it in the upper echelon of importance makes total sense.  The degree to which we place it in an echelon above all else also makes sense.  Yet the capacity to use our mind is not unique among us.  All living things have a form of intelligence.  It may not be in words or easily understood by us but it does exist.  To what degree do we place our thinking capacity in an echelon above all other living things? How about how much higher the echelon of our intellect over our emotions and instincts?  With our inclination to place the intellect echelons above all the other elements of what makes us human, it makes sense that we do not place as much value on what is happening in our hearts or with our spirit.  We place a priority on being able to explain it all.  If our intellect cannot grasp what is happening in our hearts or with our spirit we see it as less valid.  What if our sense of wholeness cannot be explained in thoughts and ideas alone?  What if the echelon we have placed intellect upon is out of fear of the unknown?  What if the very factor we need to embrace our hearts and spirits stems from our willingness to be in the unknown?  If out of fear we place our intellect as the highest echelon of our existence, doesn’t that mean fear is actually an echelon above our intellect? On my daily dates with God, I am encouraged to step away from the echelon of fear and spend time in the unknown.  I get to play in the space of putting my heart and spirit in an echelon above my mind.  Most of what I can say I have learned by practicing this daily is how much of an illusion any echelon of what makes me who I am are smoke and mirrors.  Wholeness is about the interplay of all of who we are one moment at a time.