dailydatewithgod

I am pretty sure of two things.  None of us are going to make it out of this life alive and most of us will experience some bumps, bruises, and dents along the way.  The first brings a little level of relief as it seems so easy to get caught up in a world that is determined to outdo life as if it were possible.  Maybe all of this rushing and worrying doesn’t need to be so intense.  Maybe it is okay to relax into the flow of life. Maybe we could be like the flowers that don’t argue about staying in bloom all the time and surrender to the season, we could do the same and with just as much beauty. Who knows maybe flowers do argue?  Maybe they are irritated when the bees come to take and place pollen. Maybe the process of going from a bud to blossom is painful.  We do not know any of that because we can only witness what is happening in action.  When we look at our own lives what do they look like when we compare our thoughts versus our actions?  Clearly, there are inconsistencies.  We see them easily in others, but not so easily in our own lives.  I did not grow up in the time of silent films and have only watched a few minutes here and there of some of the films, but I have watched old 8mm films of my dad’s family.  One can make up a whole story about what is happening when one doesn’t hear the words.  And even when we can hear the words we do not know what real thinking is going on underneath the words. The point is there are many layers of experience for us humans.  The real question is how much of what we are thinking, feeling, saying, and doing is aligned?  And what is it aligned with?  Maybe our goal here is to live a layered and bumpy existence in and out of alignment as we figure out the truth of who we are.  God invites us to engage in the learning of the whole of ourselves, discover the flow of life within us, and attempt to let go into it being the beautiful flowers we are at our core.