dailydatewithgod

Sharing my experiences and understandings of the Great I AM.

Sep 11

Be Of Disclosure!

by Colleen
God is relevant. Walking in relationship with God invites us to look at elements of ourselves that we would rather keep hidden.  God acknowledges the fear we have at disclosing ourselves but knows it is our freedom that lies on the other side of disclosure.  God offers a hand to walk us through whatever we think is the hidden and shines the light of love.  God recognizes that the hidden dark elements of ourselves are simply cries for love.  God hears those cries and will not let them go unnoticed.  The invitation for disclosure is about the integration of love towards a fuller experience of living.  This fullness of love allows the light to penetrate the dark elements so they may receive the love they need and be transformed by the light of love.
My prayer for us is the courage to disclose that which is seemingly hidden to God and witness the power of light and love in our lives today.
If God wants us to experience the fullness of the light of love, what dark element are you willing to disclose to yourself and God as crying out for love today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 10

Be Of Veracity!

by Colleen
God is true.  We are honoring ourselves when we can acknowledge the truth of who we are.  We also honor God and others when we stop pretending to be something we are not.  Our veracity keeps us in connection with the One Truth of life.  The truth of love.  I always thought that if I got really good at doing what was expected of me I would be safe enough, okay enough, or approved of enough.  But I was looking to the wrong source for my enoughness.  My true being enough comes from my Creator.  In the embrace of God I am able to look at myself in the mirror and begin to acknowledge the truth of who I am and not be afraid.  Day by day I can be open to how I show up in the world as the gift I am not the gift I think I should be or want to be.  The veracity of me was hiding behind my preconceived notions of others expectations.  God invites me each new breath to embrace the truth of my wholeness in all that I am this moment.
My prayer for us is the courage to embrace our veracity and live from it one day at a time.
If God designed us to show up as the truth of who we are at our core, how can God support you in the level of veracity you are today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 9

Be Of Exposure!

by Colleen

God reveals.  There is nothing hidden with God.  When we find ourselves wondering where God is, the real question is more likely what are we not seeing?  When I feel like God has disappeared, I have to be willing to begin to look for God in a different way.  God exposes loves on all levels and all forms.  If I am looking at something and see no element of love in it, I have lost my true sight.  It usually occurs when I have a fixed notion of what is going to happen.  I think there is a certainty of how love will show up and it doesn’t.  I hold back from being open to love in a new way because I fear it will expose me as a fool.  When I look back on my life on the times I was a fool for love and while my ego was bruised, I don’t regret it.  I would rather chance being exposed on the search for love than stuck in my obscure world where loving isn’t showing itself.  God designed love as a flow.  If I am holding tight to my ideas, I am not in the flow of life.  In the end it is not the kind of exposure that my ego fears that draws me into love.  The exposure of love is a calling to expand the breadth and depth of our hearts and open the eyes of our soul in the moment.

My prayer for us is the courage to allow ourselves to let go of our ideas of love and experience the exposure of love outside of our thinking today.
If God is inviting you to stop obscuring love to your definition alone, what possibilities of exposure might you be willing to chance on today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 8

Be Of Opening!

by Colleen
God embraces.  It continually amazes me the depths at which God is available to receive me just as I am.  It is honestly beyond my understanding the openness God demonstrates.  It is the power of love at its fullest.  God doesn’t seem to spend time with a list of things needed for improvement.  God isn’t interested in all the ways in which I am not able to be open to loving myself.  Perhaps God knows that I am acutely aware of these things.  There is something in being willing to step towards this opening to love offered by God that allows me to embrace the lack of love in me.  The opening of love created allows for an acceptance of what is.  When I am in acceptance I can move forward and decide to change or not.  God’s love is not contingent on my perfection.  God’s love is always open and available.
My prayer for us is the courage to open ourselves up to love as God loves and let go of our requirements for love today.
If God is not limited by our perception of deservedness, in what way can you be open to loving you  in an area of your life where you have restricted love today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 7

Be Of Rethinking!

by Colleen
God changes.  My perspective on life has changed significantly since I started on my daily meditation dates with God.  Each morning as I have brought myself as fully as possible to our date, my way of thinking has been altered.  I can remember times when I would picture myself placing my troubled thinking in the hands or at the feet of God as though on an altar. It helped me to imagine letting go completely of the thinking that was robbing me of my peace.  But God didn’t grab the thoughts and take them away.  God looked me in the eye and acknowledged the thinking I brought to be altered. God would take a look them and with great love assure me that it would be taken care of. Then the miracle would occur.  I would find myself in the very situation that used to make me feel trapped or discomforted by my way of thinking and would somehow see the situation from a different angle.  I would hear words come out of my mouth enabling me to handle the situation with love.  It was as though I was rethinking the situation. Other times, the experience was off my radar and I never had to think about it again.  The rethinking, to think as God thinks, is what transformed my heart.  It has made me so grateful when I am willing to let go long enough of a way of thinking because I remember that God does not think as I do.  The simplest prayers I say throughout the day are “God please help me to see this as You see this, God change my thinking or I placed my thinking on the altar of Your mind.”
My prayer for us is the willingness to be open to rethinking something that robs of our peace and the courage to place it in God’s hands today.
If God will not judge us for our thinking, what might be keeping you from being open to rethinking an experience or situation today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 6

Be Of Reciprocating!

by Colleen
God decides.  In our experience of life there are many choices we are faced with over and over again.  Our daily routines are filled with moments of choices that in large part we are not aware of because our mind does them automatically.  It is a beautiful function of our brain that so much is automated as it allows us to focus on placing energy for decisions that really need our attention.  These higher ordered decisions include how we want to share the love within us.  We think it is automatic because we experience the feelings without prompting ourselves to choose them.  But feeling love is different from deciding to love.  A decision to love is to reciprocate what has been freely given to us by God.  It is the ultimate fulfillment of who we are.  Reciprocation is the element of joy that gives our life meaning.  All love comes from God and when we respond as God we are being our truest selves.
My prayer for us is the courage to choose to reciprocate love and experience the joy of being ourselves today.
If God designed us to love and we don’t need to make up what that looks like, how can you reciprocate love in your life and be your truest self today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 5

Be Of Vastness!

by Colleen
God is limitless.  The challenge we face as human beings in a physical body is in our limitations of the physical world.  Our mind has the capability of imagining experiences beyond our physical reality.  Perhaps it is an indication of our connection to the divine.  The vastness of our spirits create a balance to our reality.  It is this vastness that allows us to enter more fully into a relationship with God. Physically we are in our bodies and God is somewhere (often described as “up there”) outside of us.  Doesn’t that place God within our limited thinking?  What if God is as close as our hearts?  What if God is embodied in an experience of vastness that transcends our day-to-day understanding?  This would mean love can exist as more than the physical expression of love.
My prayer for us is the willingness to open our they eyes of our heart the vastness of God present within us.
If God is beyond our limited thinking and being, how might God be able to share the vastness of love with you today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 4

Be Of Anticipation!

by Colleen

God excites.  There is no shortage of experiences waiting for us when we embark on a relationship with God.  I am constantly surprised by how God shows up in my life.  It is often where and how I might least expect it. It is in small and delightful ways. It is in profound moments that touch my heart.  It is the salve provided by my breath at a time of intense grief and anger.  If I was stuck on how I expect God to show up I would miss it.  The key is anticipating the variety and limitless nature of God.  In the same way God anticipates my awakening to the truth of myself and finding peace, I can anticipate the guidance of God to show up at any time in any way.  On the one hand it can seem scary because of the seeming uncertainty, but it only seems uncertain.  I am certain that God is and its all I have to know to live in anticipation of how God is in this moment.

My prayer for us is the curiosity to be in anticipation of the variety and limitless nature of God in our lives today.
If God has no limits, how might you be able to stand in the space of anticipation of God’s love for you showing up today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 3

Be Of Conglomeration!

by Colleen
God joins. As we invite our minds into the knowledge of our hearts by taking time to connect with the deepest part of ourselves, we find life is much more simple than our minds would have us believe.  God is interested in helping us maximize the use of our hearts as the driving force of our existence.  This invitation of God to us comes from God’s knowledge of our truest happiness stemming from our hearts.  Our purest experience of joy comes ultimately from the recognition of God’s presence with us.  We experience this conglomeration of God’s existence by stepping into a place of silence.  I have found that what works for me is to engage in my daily meditation date with God before I check my phone, look at my email, or carry on a conversation with another.  Then the starting point of my day begins simply with the ultimate conglomeration of love.  I never know quite what will occur as I step into the space of my heart with God each day.  What I do know is that God is genius at providing the most profound conglomeration of love that lays outside my realm of possibility.  As I go through my day, I can reflect back on my date time and remember who I am and what lies within me at all times.
My prayer for us is the willingness to explore in early morning silence the conglomeration of love that God has placed in our hearts will be shared with us today.
If God is love undefined, what conglomeration of love might you ask God to help you experience in your heart today?  Share in the comments.

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Sep 2

Be Of Security!

by Colleen
God is untouched.  The power and the presence of our Almighty Creator can withstand anything that exists.  There is nothing we can experience that can cause God to unravel. God existed before anything else and therefore the creation and destruction of anything else will not rock God out of creation.  In my daily meditation dates with God I am wrapped in this sense of security that grounds me when I go out into the world.  It is the centering piece that allows me to know God is within me and nothing that happens to me can destroy the core of who I am. I continually seek outside elements of security and frequently fall prey to their illusionary allure, but at the end of the day it is just me and God.  No thought or feeling I have no matter how powerful can change my essence.  My security in God is grounded in the certainty of God.  In the storms of life I never know how I will be secure or how God will show up in those moments, but somewhere in me I know God is.  Even the times when I could not find God anywhere the fact of the presence of my breath allowed me to know on an intimate level I was not yet done with this life.  It isn’t easy when one’s sense of security comes from an unseen, unprovable experience but it isn’t about having to prove it or it making sense to anyone else. It only matters that I am present in my awareness of the security of love in this moment.
My prayer for us is the willingness to set the foundation for our security in God by spending some time in our heart space with God today.
If God is the ultimate security, what experience can you let go that you believe is going to undo you today?  Share in the comments.

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