dailydatewithgod

Maybe it’s the warmer weather in Los Angeles or the fact that it is so sunny but I find myself in a mental space as I write today in alignment with the aliveness of life.  It is nice when that happens.  Having an open heart and seeing possibilities makes everything more breathable and less frightening.  No particular circumstance has changed.  We are still dealing with a pandemic that seems to keep shape-shifting, it can still be hard to be at work in the field of healthcare yet I am grateful to have work and be needed, and I have not looked at the number of those infected or died as a result of COVID-19 yet today and I probably will not. I was struck by something one of my higher-ups in management said today in a business meeting which incidentally was rather gloomy as we look at how work will be changing and how that will impact staff.  She said that often what seems like the worst thing to happen turns out to be an opportunity.  While this is not the first nor the last time I will hear this, I heard it in my heart.  It was as though God said to meditate on this idea of opportunity.  It sounds like one of the gifts that come in crappy wrapping and smells nothing like a gift.  Opportunity by definition is a situation seen as occurring at an appropriate or favorable time.  I can’t say this is what I would call an appropriate or favorable time, quite the opposite.  Honestly, if this is presenting an opportunity, it is a God kind of opportunity.  Only God, in my experience, is just about the only one who uses the seemingly worst situations to birth newness.  It is a spiritual perspective that the lotus flower comes out of the mud. No one looks at the mud and sees the possibility of new life unless they have attuned their hearts through which to see.  On days like today when my heart seems to be leading my sight, I ask God to help me pause and see what possibility might be right in front of me.