dailydatewithgod

I remember so clearly in my mind as a kid when I would get out of the bathtub and my mom would wrap me up tightly in a towel.  She would rub my shoulders to help me dry off my body keeping as much warmth from the bath with me before I went to put on my PJs. I would make noises as she put the towel over my head to dry my hair. We would usually end up laughing and it was the felt sense of being wrapped in joy, silliness, and love. Being wrapped in this way is a constant for God when it comes to how God relates to us. On my daily dates as I began to open myself up to being present with God, I had a familiar sense of such a wrapping around my heart.  Up to that point, I thought the way to keep myself safe was to put an iron chain around it and board up walls around it to keep it from getting hurt.  Slowly God showed me that each of our hearts exists within this wrap of never breaking courage and love.  As we learn to live and breath connected to this heart sense, the more the wrap flexes to make room for more growth.  The feeling of our hearts breaking is merely the adjustment of the wrap to a newer reality of what it means to love.   The wrap allows for the flexing and while it seems in our minds that our hearts break, the only breaking we are really experiencing is the dismantling of whatever uninhabitable barriers we have placed on our hearts.  The wrap of God leaves room for us to grow and expand our hearts to experience the fullness of love.