dailydatewithgod

If there is one thing I have learned more in the last year is the value of tenderness and mercy. Both when it comes to others and myself I find that I am best able to practice clemency when I step out of the context and notice the process I am in. The subject matter, the situation at hand or the story I am making up in my head as to why something is happening surprisingly is of little interest to my heart. When I pause, take a breath and step back to take in all of what is going on the lens of my heart can step in. It is easy for me to get caught up in my head about what is supposed to be happening but after many years of trying my best, I cannot fight reality. At any given moment I am where I am. Regardless of what I think about it, it is where I am. No amount of shoulding on myself or the situation ever changed it. The lens of clemency my heart shows me in the moments where my head wants to show me what is not okay about what is makes it easier to breathe. We have all found ourselves in moments facing things we never thought would happen or reacting in a way outside of our comfort zone. The heart’s creative level of clemency in those very times is indispensable. It is the space of tenderness that is foreign to the mind right up until the message of clemency reaches up from our hearts and casts the light of mercy and allows it to fall gently upon the scene. It is hard to believe the road to access the clemency within our hearts begins with a simple breath.