dailydatewithgod

Getting to know the truth of who we are can be challenging depending on how wedded we are to our ideas about ourselves. It can actually feel painful to let go of some of the familiar stories about ourselves even if they cause us pain.  Familiarity means survival to our brains. In my experience, it is only when the pain of the familiarity is greater than the comfort of the familiarity are we interested in reevaluating its importance to us.  We behave based on how we identify ourselves and illumination of part of our identity as no longer useful for our greater good is painful and possibly threatening to our sense of self.  This where the message of the heart comes in.  Our hearts have the compassion to embrace that element of our identity and illuminate for us how it is served us well up to this point.  Our hearts have the courage to carry us through the process of letting go of what does not serve our greatest good and illuminate what is possible on the other side of the release. Our hearts have the grace to reintroduce us with gentle illumination to the truth of who we are at our core which has always superseded our head’s ideas about who we are.  God invites us to make room for the heart’s illumination and begin to behave based on our heart’s identity.