dailydatewithgod

When so much of the world around us seems to be traveling super fast and our response is requested faster than we can fully digest what is coming at us, it is easy to get a little dizzy.  It makes sense that we let go of responding and just react. God invites us to pause before responding through the motion of our breath.  Literally to speak or move we need our breath first.  This automatic body system speaks of the value of taking a beat before reacting. Perhaps this is because we spend so much time reacting because of the seeming urgent request and we forget that our response is about who we are, not about what we are responding to.  It is our words that come from us, it is our actions that demonstrate our behavior.  We like to think that everyone is willing to give the benefit of the doubt and take the time to look back at what preceded our thoughts, words, and actions, but everyone else is also in a rush and feels the need to react as well.  Caught up in this maelstrom of reactions we lose sight of what started it all.  Think of a time when you found yourself fighting with someone.  Not long into the argument and neither party remembers what kicked it off.  If we take the time to contemplate a response or at least take the full breath demanded within our system to respond or react, we might find a moment of respite from the dizzy cycle. Our hearts contain the knowledge of the truth of who we are and provide the empowering energy needed to provide a response that mirrors who we really are versus who we are pretending to be by keeping up with everyone else.   Wouldn’t we rather respond or react to the truth of who each other is versus who we are being because we are stuck in spinning in the cycle of an expected speedy response.