dailydatewithgod

Love’s calling comes in the oddest forms sometimes.  It is one of the many gems in how God appears to operate at least in my life.  I used to think that only when pleasant or peaceful situations occurred was it a sign of God’s presence.  As I have matured in my relationship with God on our daily dates, I am continually reminded that there is nowhere God is not. Love’s presence is also in those irritating little blips and bubbles of life that percolate and sometimes pop right in front of my eyes.  When an uncomfortable feeling or idea is bubbling up inside of me it is my heart stirring that the presence of love is needed with greater strength.  When anxiety and fear take hold of my mind I seem to operate as though I am in a bubble that is growing ever thicker and stronger.  It is those moments that my heart calls out to my Creator.  Through my voice I find myself yearning to connect and be restored to wholeness of mind and body.  And because I can be impatient, I want it now and can be straight up demanding that God show up “right now!”  But God knows me in and out and I am certain gets quite a chuckle at how moved I am in the bubbling of my feelings.  In the right time, God’s, not mine, an intuition or sense of peace or changed perspective falls gently on my consciousness.  My part is to not let the bubbling get to boiling or freezing and spread to other realms of my life or the people around me.  In the quite space of waiting with the bubbling I am drawn from my heart to focus on God.  There I am given the chance to breathe in the trust of the inherent strength of love residing within me at all times. God provides the time for me to learn from the bubbling by first not making it wrong or bad.  God shows me on our dates that I can continue to show up in this bubbling space and not boil over or freeze up.

We are capable of so many things and experiences that we have no idea.  Right now in this moment so much information is coming at you in the form of various energies like light and sound.  Not to mention all the visuals you are processing from your optic nerve through your brain.  There is a reason that little babies need so much sleep.  That haven’t yet figured out how to sift through the information and experiences all around them.  Over time we build up files so to speak and automatically sift through the information without any conscious effort.  It is one of the brilliant elements of the human brain to be able to do so.  The down side is that we sometimes miss out on things.  Our brain will categorize something we see as already known unless we slow down and take a closer look. The moment there is an element of familiarity in an experience our brain brings to mind the familiar feelings and ideas that were attached to it from the past.  There is no way to tell our brain to stop sifting but we can set a conscious decision to look, listen or feel past the known.  We can opt to take a second look before we sift it out.  We can invite God into the sifting process by praying to see things differently.  Therein lies the opportunity to see multiple possibilities of love instead of what we readily discard as being the opposite.

Have you ever noticed the power of light?  Our eyes are drawn to it.  Whether it is literal turning on of light or the sun peaking through the clouds.  It captures our attention.  It is as though we know within light there is possibility.  What we don’t realize is that we sense creation inherent in light.  Our hearts know this.  We are all energy on at our base level and the energy present in light has the power to give life.  We learned in school about photosynthesis which creates from light.  I child emerges from a dark womb of its mother into the light of the world. Jesus preached that he was the Light of the World.  When we have the opportunity to reflect the light of God burning within us others are drawn to us.  When people shine in their talents and share their energy with us through compassion, our hearts are moved by love.  Love does not grow in the dark.  We keep secrets in the dark.  Healing happens through transparency and bringing things to the light of day.  We are designed to be reflections of the Light of Love.  We have the power to be a beacon of love when we are open to allowing light to transform our hearts.  This means bringing things out of darkness, even the things we are most afraid to let be seen.  When we bring them to light, God can show us how there is capacity of love even in the darkest of spots.  My daily prayer and meditation date is my chance to begin my day with an opening for the light of God’s love so I have a chance to be the reflection of  light as I go through my day.  At the very least, it reminds me that the darkness from which I just emerged did not have the final say.

The beauty of living from the heart is in the capacity to share.  Our hearts radiate and energy that extends beyond our physical body space.  The Institute of Heart Math has been studying this scientific phenomenon for more than 30 years.  We have the ability to impact the room we are in, the streets we walk on, and the office space we create all from our hearts.  The beginning of being able to use this capability for the benefit of ourselves and others is in the conscious connection to our own hearts.  In my daily prayer and meditation dates with God the heart is the space God invites me into.  Our hearts hold the core of the love from which we were created.  Being willing to sit still long enough and take a look is the power to dare to know God.  Sometimes as in my case there are all kinds of structures and stories on top of the energies of our heart.  God gives us the compassion to take a patient look.  We may run for a long time but the moment we are willing to peak, God is there to guide us.  God already lives there and wants us to be reunited with the beauty that lies underneath all the supposed protection we have placed on our hearts.  God knows we can radiate the purity of love and kindness we are when we become reacquainted with it.  One breath at a time we will connect with the radiation power of love stemming from us and to all around us.

In the Hebrew scriptures God tells Jeremiah that before he was in his mother’s womb, God knew him and formed him.  Before I was a glimmer in my parent’s eyes, my heart not yet formed had been pierced by the love of the Creator.  God found a vehicle through which to make love manifest in me and in you.  God’s mission is love and so we are brought into reality to share in that mystery of love.  This has been decided before we even take shape.  We are called to pierce the reality of life with this same love.  Just by showing up we are the message of love which is even deeper than our core essence.  When I set out on my daily prayer and meditation date with God it is my intention to be brought back to a place of remembrance of this truth.  It is the piercing of my own heart that needs to happen if I am going to have any hope of being what I am ultimately called to be.  It doesn’t take much for other elements to get piled on top of my heart to the point of needing a piercing followed by an infusion of God’s presence.  Thankfully we all are not in this same space at the same time.  We are surrounded by living and walking embodiments of being pierced alive by the power of love through each other.  In any given moment I am the one who demonstrates the visibility of the love and power of God or the one who needs it from you.  No wonder we are surprised by the power of love.  When we need it the most it might feel almost invasive and heart breaking instead of heart building.  It is only the layers (ideas, beliefs, misunderstandings, false protections) that we placed on top of our hearts that hurt when pierced.  At our core the piercing feels like a life line to the eternal because it is.