dailydatewithgod

One of the tools I learned on my daily prayer and meditation dates with God is developing curiosity about my thoughts.  By observing them come and go through my head, noticing which ones I attach myself to, I get an insight into ideas about my bedrock.  The difficulty comes when I simply accept all thoughts as my foundation.  In other words practicing a blind acceptance of truth simply because I am thinking them. I have learned that I do something similar when it comes to feelings.  I am having a feeling and instead of recognizing it as something I am experiencing I describe it as being me.  I am frustrated, angry, happy, excited, and so on instead of I am feeling frustrated, feeling angry, feeling happy, or feeling excited.  It is a subtle difference but it is one that separates my mind’s ideas from what my bedrock is to what my heart’s ideas about my bedrock.  My mind is full of ideas that I use to lay the foundation of who I believe myself to be.  My heart makes room for all experiences and thoughts to occur without as much attachment to my sense of being.  We take action in our lives based on the bedrock of our belief of ourselves. God invites us to bring our heart’s lens into the equation before acting from a misunderstanding of our bedrock.  God knows the heart is closer to the view God has of us as whole, complete, worthy, and sacred just because we are alive.  Our heart allows for us to be whole no matter what is happening or what we are thinking about ourselves or anything else. This is our bedrock.  Getting stuck in our thinking and feeling as our bedrock shifts the whole truth of who we are into separate pieces always searching and never finding peace. The peace God has placed intrinsically to our design.