dailydatewithgod

We often do not realize the ramifications of an event until long after it has happened.  Given our proclivity to be meaning-making machines we take incidents and create stories around them.  We feel better and more at ease when things make sense.  It can feel almost painful like a headache when we can’t wrap our minds around something or someone.  While it may put our minds at ease to design meaning around something there can be additional ramifications for the meaning we create.  The ramifications fall on all ends of the spectrum and we can make even more meaning out of how we interpret the ramifications.  Our mind just keeps going and going.  It is quite marvelous.  Sometimes in the mix, however, an incident gets laid on our hearts.  The work of coming to terms with the ramifications then needs to be done with the heart as well as the mind.  We are whole beings so the idea that we can handle everything between our ears denies the fact that we are not only alive between our ears.  Yet, I am many times guilty of assuring myself that I can think my way of out of something that requires a bit more in-depth work.  My resistance is often around feelings because they are so fluid and have no set trajectory. Plus, I learned as a child that only certain ones were permissible. God has shown me on our daily dates that incidents of the heart are best faced with the breath.  By opening myself up to the power of the heart to courageously walk me through whatever is lying on the other side of the incident, I can walk the path with curiosity.  God invites us all to become curious about the incidents on our hearts that are calling to us to learn more about the power of love in our own lives, no matter what story our mind tells us about their meaning.