dailydatewithgod

God is here. Our heart holds all the energy of love.  God designed us so we would always have what we need to carry out our mission in life.  To grow and be love is why we are here. This depth of powerful energy lives within us and when we take the time to reconnect with it we begin to see our lives differently.  In my daily prayer and meditation dates with God I have experienced an inner stillness and a well-spring of love that comes from my heart. Over time I have needed to spend less time protecting my heart and more time being willing to expand it.  This inner experience of God’s love grounds me when my head is telling me that my reality is a mess.  Its messey when feel the discord in my relationships with friends or family.  Or when I am uncertain about what to do with money or my job or even whether to approach someone.  Any one of these things could potentially make me want to cut and run.  When I say cut and run as a recovering addict I mean cut off my connection to my heart and abandon myself.  Instead there is this renewed connection to an inner space where nothing but love exists. God is there to remind me I am not only more than my circumstances but there is love present in me that is stronger than I think it is.

If God wants us to grow our inner love space, how might God encourage you to develop your innerness today?  Share in the comments.

God causes.  All of Creation formed from the love of God exists and thrives in that love when it is at its best.  When we engage in our role as the messengers of love we are the effect of love. We are the presence of All That Is in the form we are in.  Some people will be drawn to you because of your style and personality.  The way you are being in the world will convey the presence of love to them in the way they need it most.  Someone else will have a different style of expressing love by being their best selves.  There are some common threads in our ways of being messengers of love but there is a reason for our uniqueness.  We are the effect of God’s decision to express love in as many multitudes and possibilities as can be.  We suffer when we try to be someone else because we are denying the expression of the essence of love we are.  Each day in my prayer and meditation date with God I am encouraged to explore love more fully by taking time to be present with myself and God just as we are in the moment.

If God causes love’s presence, are you willing to be the fullest design of the effect of love’s presence in the world by being yourself today?  Share in the comments.

God supports.  We come into this life with a fully equipped heart for a love greater than we can imagine.  We quickly learn that we are dependent upon our mind to process our life and experience of the world.  We are encouraged to grow in understanding and knowledge.  There is understanding and knowledge of the heart but it is not given as high of a priority.  To live fully as children of God we are called to espouse the capabilities of our hearts.  We are encouraged to explore the realms of understanding of knowledge in the space of love.  This is how we come into deeper relationship with God, ourselves, and others.  By espousing the system of the heart the knowledge and understanding of the mind is placed in context.  What is the point of all kinds of worldly knowledge if it does not lead us to greater love of one another in the world?

If God designed us to grow fully in all areas of our lives, how might you be willing to espouse one more additional quality of love in your life today?  Share in the comments.

God is true. As we walk the path of faith it all come to a place of return in our heart.  Through the vision of our hearts where love grows and expands throughout our being, we are able to see ourselves and other’s with the vision of God.  God is always present to our innocence.  God sees the minds of our hearts and knows that whatever we do or say does not change that which God created.  God’s design of life invites us to return to the memory of our innocence.  It is a memory for us because we think that based on how we have lived our lives or stories we created we have somehow undone  our true nature. God never sees us as less than what God created and our hearts never forget.  I can see this in my own life.  When I am centered in my heart, which I practice on my daily prayer and meditation dates with God, I am able to see the innocence of others.  It is like putting on God goggles.  When I see the innocence I can be accepting, loving, and in recognition that we are all connected.

If God created us as innocent, what can you let go of in your thinking that has caused you to believe you could undo your innocence today?  Share in the comments.

God influences. It is no mystery that God shows presence and love in beauty.  If you have ever been captured by a sunset, warmed in your heart by the face of a child, awestruck by a flower or stunned by a beautiful human being.  We also know in our hearts of the beauty of love.  When we experience a genuine reaching of ourselves to a friend or lover to hug or kiss them, are moved to support a cause we are passionate about, or remember how we were all brought to tears seeing the rescuers pull people out of the twin towers buildings in New York City in September of 2001.  Beauty sways our hearts because it is the evidence of the presence of love.  Heck, ask a someone who has ever seen a woman sway her hips with confidence and they can tell you about the presence of  beauty!  God designed us to become present to love by creating beauty that draws from within us the resources that abound and allow us to extend love out.  We are swayed to encocurage us to share love freely.

If God gave us a heart full of love, how might you sway the beauty of the love in your heart to awaken the person present in your life today?  Share in the comments.

God is now. The gift of living in the light of love is the power of being present in this time.  In my daily meditation and prayer dates with God I have had fulfilling moments of being present in the present moment.  More importantly, as I go through my day I am able to be where I am.  It sounds like a small thing but given that there is no past or future except in our minds, where else are we really?  To me being present in time is about acceptance.  It is about letting go of things as I think they should be and being in the flow of how they are.  I also realize that if it is not something I like, when I let go of wanting it to be different and accept it, it passes much quicker.  It is about changing my view of what is.  I can make steps to change but the only thing that changes in the moment is my acceptance.  I can choose to be with myself in this moment as someone who is fighting or accepting.  The great things about moments in time is we get so many of them we can experiment with who we are being in different ones and choose more or less of that way of being as we go.  The other day I was down for the count with a head cold and when I started to feel a bit more normal, I stepped outside my apartment to get some fresh air.  Thank God for nature. Even in the urban jungle I am I can always find some of it.  I took a walk around the neighborhood I live in and found a sidewalk that had some green grass and took a moment to lean up again the tall tree in the shade.  I took my shoes off and stood there with my bare feet in the grass.  I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths and soaked in the moment.  I opened my eyes as I felt the warmth of the sun hitting my skin and saw this yellow and black butterfly flying around the houses around me. I love butterflies and I so rarely see them.  It was not in my plan to stay home for a couple of days and rest my body.  I have lots of things to do, don’t you know?   Being present in that moment in time I lost track of time and remembered life is about being, not doing.

If God is with us now, how many moments in time would you like to be with love today?  Share in the comments.

God is love. Aligning ourselves with God gives us the power and the courage to live from the love we are.  Love does take courage especially in the face of the adversity or even the face of life that seems to prefer to numb and nullify the living experience.  Love calls us to live expansively and stretch ourselves past what we think our capacity to love is.  Some of the greatest moments of strength and power in my life have been in the small moments when I chose the path of love instead of the path of conformity and expectation.  Aligning myself with the source of all love gave me the strength to take action instead of walking away. When I find myself wanting to close off my heart from someone who is bothering or irritating me, I can take a breath, stand tall, and anchor myself in alignment with a greater truth of love coming from above.  I can then sense the closure slowing and the breath of willingness reach my heart. I have learned that I cannot selectively close off my heart to one person while simultaneously keeping it open to another or myself.  I can choose that it is worth the openness where love can flow freely and in some cases through me when I am not capable of extending it.

My prayer for us is the courage to connect with the truest form of love by aligning ourselves through the willingness to allow love to move through us in times it cannot come from us.

If God designed us to be the messengers of love then how might you be willing to align with God today and allow yourself to be used as the beacon of love you are for yourself and others today?  Share in the comments.

God creates.  Our design from the beginning has built within us the capacity to love and be loved.  We do not need to turn to someone or something else in order to generate that experience.  It is a process of allowing it to flow in and through us.  We create an open channel where we are emptied of anything that might block the flow of love.  When we empty ourselves of all we think we know about love and how we think it will show up or behave we allow for the experience of love as it is in all its fashions to be present.  In this space of emptiness we can discover love as though for the first time because we have let go of preconceived notions of what love is.  The more I empty myself of my ideas of what love is, the more I experience the vast and expanding nature of love.  I am always surprised in the ways it shows up.  I am humbled by the appearance of love in a place I thought love dare not go especially when I realize it was me that would not go there.

If God is all shapes and sizes, how can you empty yourself of an idea of love and be open to a different shape of love today?  Share in the comments.

God is changeless.  The peace offered by God is encased in the love already within our hearts.  It is an invitation to awaken within us the desire of our being.  We search our whole lives to experience that which is permanently a part of our make up.  We have been deceived by listening to the messages of the world telling us what we seek is obtained outside of ourselves.  We witness it in others, we have spiritual experiences, we go to temples and churches, we attend retreats, and travel to distant lands.  We have moments of those experiences of peace and know we have connected with something greater than ourselves.  Then we think we must continue to do that thing, be with those people, go to those places, or continue those practices to generate the experience.  We fail to recognize that doing such things has simply activated the permanence of God’s love and peace which has been with us all along.  Certainly those practices and experiences help, but at the end of the day, all we need to connect to the unchanging presence of love and peace eternal is as close as our breath.

If God is consistent, then what stands in the way of you connecting to your heart where the permanence of God’s love resides this very moment?  Share in the comments.

God is all.  Too see the world around us fully we are called by God to see God in all things.  Sometimes it is harder to find God in something and so instead of making the default we assume it is separate from us.  We make this decision quicker than we like to think we do but our brain has this automatic categorization that occurs.  It is a survival method.  Looking past what we perceive is what it means to live spiritually.  To seek the world as a place where God exists in all things is to embrace the worldliness of our existence.  The beauty in the practice of reevaluation of our original perception is the heart satisfaction of connection with something we first deemed separate from ourselves.  The whole world begins to open up when we are able to identify the similar part of ourselves with others.  We no longer have to spend our energy defending ourselves against something foreign to us.  We get to embrace the godliness of the world.

If God created all and is in all, where in your world can you be open to seeing again the godliness in the world around you?   Share in the comments.