dailydatewithgod

With so much breaking down of typically reliable systems, changes in how we operate as a culture, and facing uncertainty on a collective level it seems ridiculous to think about flourishing.  Our minds want us to be on the lookout for the next possible destruction or dissolution of ideas, people, practices, or institutions.  Our brains are wired to make sure we are aware so we can survive them. Our hearts have greater confidence in our survival because it is our heart that knows it is more than a body.  It is our heart that trusts us to be a part of the fullness of life which does not end when it stops beating.  Our hearts are connected to all that is and will always be.  It is as though our hearts have the internal awareness that energy is neither created nor destroyed. In this space, our hearts remind our eyes to see elements of flourishing.  The flourishing taking place both right under our noses and beyond what our minds narrow our focus towards. God invites us to notice the flourishing forms of life happening in and around us that provide a new breath of energy.  It is what we will need on the days when we cannot see any of it.  Flourishing is something we can internalize in such a way that it will enable us to call upon it within when we have no way of seeing it outside of us.