dailydatewithgod

So much of how we operate in the world is under the umbrella of protection.  Essentially since our brains are wired to keep us surviving, the protection is from death.  In the western world that has morphed into protection from aging.  In the modern world by many accounts, it is protection from living.  I get it.  I understand it.  I have lived through many things by all accounts had life gone the way I wanted or an ideal way, I would have not had to experience it.  No one signs up to be incested, made fun of for their weight, suffer from depression, or almost kill themselves slowing through substances. We all have our experiences that “should not have happened.”  Part of maturity is about recognizing that no one gets out of this experience alive.  The very ingrained thing in us about survival simultaneously creates a remarkable capacity to be resilient despite challenging circumstances and does not work.  I suppose it could be viewed as a big joke of life. Unless of course, we recognize there is a bigger picture going on.  When we see ourselves as solely individuals who live and then die and it is all over, we are subscribing to the common perspective which makes sense to our minds. God invites us to widen our perspective by looking at life through the lens of the heart.  It does not make sense the peace and power we feel when we look at life through the heart’s lens.  It seems absurd that we are moved energetically inside when we see someone we love or how we are moved emotionally by the actions of someone who by all accounts is not connected to us.  The perspective of the heart holds the sacredness of life as being possible whatever stage of life we are in.  The perspective of the heart speaks the possibility that perhaps what we see with our eyes is not all there is.