dailydatewithgod

The beauty of our mind is its ability to make connections to our current understanding.  It is a brilliant way to not have to start from the beginning every time we learn or incorporate new information. Can you imagine having to relearn how to read letters and how words create sentences every time you went to read or write something? It would be exhausting.  The downside of this is it keeps us from accessing innovation. We are aware of the newness of people or experiences only to the extent that they are operating outside of our current understanding.  Even when they do we often miss it because we layer in front of it what we expect.  In recovery, I learned the importance of letting go of expectations.  It is not easy, but it is simple.  On one level it sounds depressing not to expect anything.  It sounds like we are not hoping in anything.  However, our hearts embody the understanding that we can hope in the newness of an experience without being tied to the specifics.  It is about breathing into the awareness of the joy of surprise in any being or experience, even ourselves.  Letting go of expectations allows us to be surprised by the innovations life will present in the moment we are in.  Innovation gives us the space to get to know the people we are with and the experiences we are having just as they are with the value of their wholeness.  God invites us to hold on to the hope of innovation in whatever moment we are in and let go of the expectation of what that innovation will look like.