dailydatewithgod

To the same degree that our minds flourish around what is known our hearts flourish in the unknown.  We have all come to face the limitations of our knowledge.  It can be frustrating, mystifying, and perplexing.   It seems as though no matter how much we learn or aim to be aware there are always elements of surprise.  I am a planner and I do my best to be prepared in most situations.  Some situations can simply not be planned. Life is designed to have us engaged and when we get caught up in our heads with what we know and expect we tend to miss out on what is right in front of us.  It is not as though our hearts want us to make mistakes and look like fools, although it happens.  God encourages us to seek the unfamiliar within the familiar.  Even when we have done something before or know someone, there are always elements of which we have no awareness. Entering into an exchange with another our hearts invite us to do so as a novice.  When we are present in the moment we are in we are apt to see things about someone we know we have never seen before.  We become the novice who is eager to learn all about them or about a situation.  Being the novice means our hearts lead us into trusting whatever discovery is in the moment is the one meant to illuminate us. The mind may fear what it does not know.  The heart has an inner knowing that no matter what it discovers as a novice, it will not undo us.  So often we do not bother to see something new in something familiar because we think it will make us look stupid or less than.  Our heart recognizes the truth of who we are at our core and it cannot be reversed by one moment.