One of the beauties in the reality of being human is our ability to change our minds. We do not always use this capacity to its fullest because we have become accustomed to our routine way of thinking and thus seeing life. Why fix it if it ain’t broke, right? From my experience in recovery both personally and as part of the recovery community, it is often not until we break that we become open to changing our thinking. The new way of thinking, however, is about a shift in thinking about our thinking. In recovery, we are broken open first to the inadequacy of our current thinking and the desperate need to change our approach overall. It is not about finding a new way of thinking and never adjusting it. It is about finding a way to continue to think differently. It is through questioning our thinking that we continually break ourselves open to making room for our hearts. We develop the skills of a stunner who seeks the awe of life. A stunner is one who has the awareness of things that lay outside what our minds can comprehend. A stunner is resonant with the strings of the heart to expand our perspective and be breathed by what is more than we could imagine. Sometimes the stunning comes as a slap aside the head or a misstep in our footing. The stunner is God’s way of reminding us as we are awakened to taking a deeper breath of who we are, which requires us to tend to the sensations of our heart. God is inviting us to resonate with the vibrations of life one note at a time.
Are we willing to embrace a stunner as God’s gift of opening our hearts to the music of life today?
dailydatewithgod 
Leave a comment