dailydatewithgod

We focus on what makes us look good in the eyes of others.  We take time to earn achievements to create a place of good standing for ourselves.   We aim to be successful by the world’s standards.  When we achieve success according to the world we are adorned with accolades, we become known and experience a mix of being inspiring and envied by others. They are the kind of adornments that our mind counts on to tell us we are enough.  Success to the mind is to be held up as an example of someone others should model themselves.  Success in the world means we have arrived. While it is an essential part of the human experience and self-actualization to make something of oneself there is a limit to the adornments provided by the world. Often in the mix, we lose sight of the adornments of the heart.  The adornments of the heart are not ones we need to acquire, they are within us already. We connect to them by venturing on a journey of learning the nature of our own being. Sometimes it takes us a while to find it because we have placed so much of the world’s adornments on top of it.  Upon reconnecting to the truth of who we are in our hearts, we develop a lens through which we can observe and know what we are here to be. There are value to adornments of the mind and the heart to embark upon a full human experience.  God invites us to get to know the needed balance within ourselves to be the truth of who we are in full expression.  It starts with our breath.  It starts with a beat.  It starts with pausing to notice if our actions are drawing from our inherent adornments or the ones we think we are supposed to be earning.  There is an intertwining of the two and we are encouraged to get to know our process for developing a life that mirrors the truth of who we are.