dailydatewithgod

Sharing my experiences and understandings of the Great I AM.

Nov 30

Be Of Entrance!

by Colleen
God begins. As I start my day with my daily prayer and meditation date with God I am allowing the first entrance to my heart and mind be this sacred relationship.  It sets the tablet for what I will continue to allow entrance into my heart the rest of the day. Over time it becomes the measurement by which I perceive the value of all things requesting entrance into my heart.  The practice strengthens my own core of being at my heart  and develops my sight dependency on my heart in addition to my eyes.  I am better able to evaluate all things that cross my path requesting entrance as that which will bring me closer or further from love.  Without realizing it I have developed an automatic tendency to pause when I find myself in distress or  anxiousness.  Instead of just barreling through, I am much more likely to pause, place my hand on my heart, and take a few deep breaths before I decide how to be in a particular situation.  My way of being is one that now pauses to ask my own heart, shall we allow entrance of this idea or experience into our sacred space today?
My prayer for us is the willingness to look at that which is requesting entrance into our experience through the lens of our heart today?
If God designed us to live and be from a place of love, how might you be willing to allow more love to enter into your experience today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 29

Be Of Realizing!

by Colleen
God awakens.  Our hearts open us up to the awareness of the truth of love.  When we are willing to realize the presence of love in and through us our lives are set upon a different course.  We can engage from the space of truth because we have allowed for the power of love to penetrate our hearts.  Living in the realization of love means allowing the light of forgiveness to give us the courage to release all that is unlike love. Realizing that we cannot simultaneously hold on to old beliefs about love and allow the myriad of possibilities of love be in our awareness is humility.  God encourages us to realize we do not have to have it figured out.  God invites us to let go of any idea in our mind that would block us from being present to love in the moment.  Accepting love as a true reality begins our journey. For me it started by realizing God did not see me as I saw me and being willing to believe that God’s love does and always will surpass any knowing of love I can ever have.
My prayer for us is the courage to realize that the truth of love is present in our lives in more ways than we can comprehend.
If God designed us to be in the truth of love, how might you be open to realizing where you are holding love at bay because it is not showing up the way you expected today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 28

Be Of Accord!

by Colleen
God agrees.  Love is in alignment with all the truth of existence.  God’s love is the template for all of creation.  When we find ourselves in conflict with love we are going against our very essence.  We are in accordance with love at our most simple and beautiful state.  It does not make us or our experiences invalid or pointless if we are in discord with love.  Rather, it provides and indication of how close or far we are from our creative essence.  When we choose to be of accord with our truth, love lights the way.  For me it is being open to the various forms of love in the present moment.  It is not limited by the constructs of my mind.  This where my date time of prayer and meditation with God comes in.  By being present to our daily relationship I am able to hear the whispers of God amidst the loud noise of the world.  God speaks of love in whispers that sometimes seem to contrast with what I thought love was supposed to be like.  God continually invites us to see love in a new way.  God encourages us to find the myriad of ways to be in accordance with the truth of who we are.
My prayer for us is the willingness to listen for the whispers of love that show up in ways we had not imagined so we can know what it means to live in accordance with our truest self today.
If God is showing up in multiple possibilities of love, how many chances to be of accord with your truest self would you like to experience today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 27

Be Of Atonement!

by Colleen
God cleanses.  There are many twists and turns that we choose and they take us down paths, some dark, some light.  It is not about always doing it right. It is about owning our choices and deciding if we need to amend something along the way.  Making changes to patterns is difficult  because we think we are the decisions we make.  Our choices are extensions of our reality at the time we make them.  We can only decide with the information we have at the time.  If we learn more later, we can amend our choices and go down a different path.  Allowing for each other to be in an experience of learning and growing throughout our lives is a beautiful gift of acceptance towards ourselves and others.  God always rejoices in our growth.  God knows that when we make amends we are breaking free of patterns and ways of being that no longer serve us.
My prayer for us is the courage to look at our lives and choose where we want to made amends and change the course of our path today.
If God accepts our willingness to change as a sign of love and growth, how might you approach making an amends in your life today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 26

Be Of Refreshing!

by Colleen
God redeems. We awaken into the life we are living today when we realize that we are not what we think we are.  Who we are is much greater than the accumulation of our experiences.  We are not our history.  We are not our future.  We are in this moment the totality of everything we need to be and can be.  God did not design us to live in shame and fear.  God did not create life to engender the experience of limitation. These are all constructs of the physical world we live in.  When we are entrenched in the patterns and it is hard for us to see anything but them.  We are not to blame for falling into the beliefs of this limited thinking and being.  We are given wake up calls which come in all shapes and sizes, and give us a chance to refresh our minds.  Most of my wake up calls have been painful.  But I realize after some time on the other side of them, they were only painful because I was stepping into the unknown and I was afraid of letting go of who I thought I was. I could not have done it on my own.  It is amazing the amount of pain and shame I accepted as my lot in life.  I professed belief in a God that was none of those things but had no clue had to integrate that belief into my life.  When I found myself on my knees with nowhere else to go than facing the pain, my refreshing experience began.  It was not easy, but it was and continues to be simple.  I refresh my mind by keeping my eyes on God.
My prayer for us is the willingness to welcome in the seemingly harsh experience of a refresh into our lives today.
God designed us to experience unlimited possibilities, what refreshing opportunities are you open to experiencing in your life today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 25

Be Of Entirety!

by Colleen
God is complete.  As children of an almighty creator we are designed whole and complete.  The essential part of ourselves comes already to go. Growing and connecting to that wholeness is our life long journey.  Our confidence and reliance upon the belief of the realness of our wholeness is the hope that guides us through the rough waters on our journey.  As I have become willing to accept myself entirely it has been easier to move forward in love.  The more I hold things about myself that I do not like with judgment or dissatisfaction, the more difficult it is to be with myself completely.  Embracing the entirety of myself and others is a God job.  My part is being willing to see myself and others and as God does.
My prayer for us is the courage to ask for help in seeing the entirety of others and ourselves from God’s perspective today.
God designed us entirely, what part of yourself might you be willing to see from God’s eyes of entire love in you today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 24

Be Of Mind!

by Colleen
God is. Being is about presence.  Being is about living.  Being is about breathing. Walking day by day in my relationship with God is a reminder and an invitation to be aware.  We seek to understand our world from our mind’s perspective but what about all the waves of energy that move back and forth from our hearts?  The energy that cannot be measured by the naked eye is detected by the mind of heart. It is in this reality of our heart minds that God placed our blue print of love.  If we are guided from this space we can inform our intellectual mind with a soundness of being that creates peace internally and externally.  Going to the places and space in our lives that lack peace can only be done from a mind of love.  This is where I grasp God’s hand because I need to know I am not alone as I venture into the spaces of my heart that have gotten disconnected from the mind of love.  God show me where you are in this?  Help me to see the love that I do not see here.  
 
My prayer for us is the courage to trust that within our heart mind’s is a space of love connected to All That Is and can guide us to a place of peace today.
If God designed us with a mind of love built into our hearts,  what does you spending some time in your heart mind look like today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 23

Be Of Synthesis!

by Colleen

God unites. The world we live in focuses a lot on all the distinctions and separations.  Our minds do the same thing.  It is our tendency as human beings to see things as either or, black and white, all or nothing.  We categorize so that we can simplify.  Our brains are searching for the easiest explanation and the most immediate solution.  This is very helpful when assessing dangerous situations and reacting to life or death decisions. This is not so helpful when it comes to interacting with others in our families or at work.  If we are constantly drawn to what is different then it is all we see.  A situation with a new colleague in the office is not a life or death matter, but the part of our brain that works to identify anything that might threaten its safety does not see it that way.  Different is genetically and anthropologically not safe.  We live in a very diverse world and are in constant contact with that which our brain would identify as other.  In my daily prayer and meditation date with God I learn to accept the different parts of myself.  I develop the capacity to observe where my mind wants to go with a judgment and see it for the survival mechanism that it is.  It is not about making it go away it is about synthesizing it into the whole spectrum that makes me who I am.  It is an area where I can continually grow.  It causes me to question myself and God if that element of my way of being is helpful in various situations throughout the day.  Can I synthesize these opposites that I am perceiving in myself and those around me so that I can love more?

My prayer for us is the courage to face the lack of synthesis in our lives and accept it as part of our make-up that we have the opportunity to observe and perhaps choose otherwise today.
If God designed our minds to see differences, would not God provide us with the tools to synthesize those differences within ourselves and others?  What in your life would you like to synthesize today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 22

Be Of Ideas!

by Colleen
God creates. We are gifted with tremendous capacity to create because we are made in the likeness and image of our Creator.  We began as an idea in the mind of God.  An idea to proliferate the energy and vibration of love in as many ways and places as possible and as more than possible.  When I reflect on the unfathomable graciousness of God’s love and attention for me I get only a taste of what it means to hold an idea with preciousness into creation.  I cannot create to the extent that God does but I can allow God’s ideas to move through me.  Each time I choose to focus on love and forgiveness I further the creation of God.  It also creates more of those in my life.  It is not about avoiding the opposite kinds of ideas but recognizing that they are a call to love in a way I had not yet conceived of.  Why would God create all the various feelings and experiences if they were not all valid?  My role in relationship with God is to bring them to God and ask, “What would you have me do with this idea?”  When I stay to long in a negative space or find myself hurting myself or someone else with a negative idea, I grab God’s hand and ask, “How do you see this?  Where is the love in this?”  It always comes back to the choice to bring my ideas to God and ask what role in plays in my life as a tenderly loved and adored child of my Creator.
My prayer for us is the willingness to check out our ideas with the Great Idea Maker today.
If God designed us to create with our ideas, would you be willing to check with God to see if your idea is in alignment with God’s loving view of you today?  Share in the comments.

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Nov 21

Be Of Stay!

by Colleen
God remains.  When all else is said and done God is always there.  It matters little to God how often we stray or how far we stray.  In the end it is Eternal Hope that we choose to come back and stay.  All we will ever need can be found on our path with God. We may need for a time to look elsewhere just to make sure and then return to stay with a full heart.  My experience has taught me that the time I spent in distance from God also correlated to the disconnect in my own heart. Upon my return God never asked where I had been or why it took me so long to want to come and stay.  God simply reached out and accepted my hand. God’s hand offered a restoration of my heart resulting in a clearer vision of the path of love.  As a result, my heart was willing to be opened and healed, I find I long to stay more and more time on the path of the One who designed the way of my heart and my life.
My prayer for us is the courage to search within our hearts and find the presence of God which make us want to stay today.
If God is patient enough to watch us grow and learn, how might you be willing to keep searching for the path of love that makes you want to stay with your heart today?  Share in the comments.

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