dailydatewithgod

Sharing my experiences and understandings of the Great I AM.

Be Of Patience!

God is enduring.  Whenever I think I cannot go on God reminds me that God can.  The power of enduring love is its amazing capability to be present even in the seeming lack of love.  It blows my mind that God is not phased by the thinking that throws me into a tizzy.  Clearly, God is greater than I.  In my daily meditation date time with God I am greeted with an excitement and expectancy of goodness.  God sees this in me even when my head is clouded with a lack of gentleness, a dark perspective, or a chatter that will not end. God’s willingness to be with me patiently and lovingly through to the other side of whatever it is that I am experiencing that is not God’s reality. God does not push me to quickly abandon that which is blocking me from seeing the love that I am.  God sits with me in patient acceptance and let’s me know that I will make it through this.  I need that. I need the power of patience that surpasses all understanding.
My prayer for us is the courage to trust that God has greater patience with us than we have with ourselves.
If God is willing to be patient with our darkness and distress, how could God show you how to be equally patient today?  Share in the comments.
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Be Of Revelation!

God is transparent.  We are given this great gift of life.  We did not ask for it.  We hardly know what to do with it most of the time. What if the design for our lives is already written out for us?  What if our experiences are the designed to show us the power of love?  What if we are equipped to handle anything that comes our way?  If God in infinite wisdom saw fit to design everything that exists with such intricacy, would God really leave us to figure it out on our own?  Maybe it isn’t a question of figuring out whether or not we are meant to be here or what our purpose is?  Maybe it is about letting go of the things we made up about who we are while we were in the process of figuring it all out?  God is love beyond understanding and wants for us to awaken to the love with which we were created.  When we connect with this realization for ourselves we are revealed to the world.  God has designed such a varied universe that nothing can be excluded from love or the definition of love.  These variations that exist physically, emotionally, spiritually and in all ways as waves of love’s presence.  We are the ones who have chosen to place labels of separation and distinction amongst the varying entities.  God sees no separation.  My suffering is tied to my lack of ability to see God’s presence in a person, place or thing.  I have learned through my meditation dates that one of the most powerful things I can do is lay my thought before God and say, “Can you show me how you see this?  I want to recognize the presence of love in this person, situation, personal characteristic, experience or whatever it may be.”  Then I am open to experience the revelation of love where I only see darkness or separation.

My prayer for us is the willingness to present to God who or what is keeping us from witnessing the revelation of love for ourselves and others today.
In the quiet moments of your heart, you know that you are love and connected to all that is love.  How can God assist you today is this revelation?  Share in the comments.
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Be Of Exploration!

God is The Image.  We create our understanding of God from the images that are passed down to us.  We develop a feeling of God by knowing God’s presence in our hearts.  We are invited continually to evaluate our understanding of God by exploring the dwellings of our hearts.  God is present in the world in a very real and concrete way through the human experience.  God also transcends the world by being present in a non-physical experience.  We get a chance to form our own perception of God by spending time in the quiet space of love.  This perception is personal and universal.  This developed understanding is what allows us to form a mature relationship with God.  God is looking to meet us eye to eye, heart to heart, and hand to hand.  A daily gift of my daily prayer and meditation date time with God has been when I am open to seeing God anew by exploring the limitlessness of my own heart.
My prayer for us is the courage to explore the realms and undefinable presence of God by searching first within our own hearts.
If God can be a presence of our own understanding and not just someone else’s perception passed down to us, what area of your heart would you want to explore and discover God in today?  Share in the comments.
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Be Of Actuation!

God is alive.  We are alive in God.  God-given life is perpetuated by growth and actualization.  God created experience is bestowed upon all of us with each new breath.  We think that our day has started and it is too late to begin again.  This moment is life.  Therefore this moment we begin.  We have multiple opportunities to create and recreate our living experience when we are in the present.  Our unconscious mind that runs most of our programming would have us think that if it did not already happen a certain way, it is not going to happen.  That is its function.  We can be grateful and acknowledge the power of our unconscious and also recognize its limitations when it comes to the present moment.  If we did not have automatic programming we would be so consumed by the very basic life tasks like breathing, walking, and talking because we would have to concentrate on them.  Being actuators means we can be grateful for what is working for us and recognize where we are called to show up and take action in our lives.  Where are we being called to love?  How are we being asked by our interactions to learn about love?  Who would God have us be in this present moment?  How might God see the challenging situation we are facing?  My meditation date time with God is an opportunity for me to ask God how I might be in actuation today.

My prayer for us is the courage to be grateful for the things in our lives we do not need to think about so that we can be in actuation around bringing and growing in love today.
If God has given us a mind that takes care of the essentials, how might God be calling you to actuate love in your life today?  Share in the comments.
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Be Of Focus!

God is One.  The simplicity of a life lived in partnership with God is in simplicity of purpose.  God is Love.  Therefore everything involving God, involves love.  Love is the means to the end.  Love is the end and the beginning.  Love is what we are growing in and towards. Love makes the world go round.  Love is what we are here to remember.  Love is what it’s all about.  Our focus in life is on love.  Where do we stand in relation to love at this moment?  Where is God in our lives at this moment?  How can I be loving in this situation?  What about this experience is calling out to be loved?  If we take the focus off of what we can get out of a situation and place it on what we can bring to it we are focusing on love.  It is not always easy, but it is simple.
My prayer for us is the courage to set aside our other agendas and focus on love and growing love in our lives today.
If God’s way is love and we are from God, what are the things that cause you to focus elsewhere today?  Share in the comments
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Be Of Messaging!

God is the message. Each one of us is given the blessed opportunity to be the message of God to the world.  This is our overarching purpose. This is why we are here.  We are given everything we need to carry out our purpose.  God wants us to be happy.  All of life is designed to free us and allow us to take in the good.  What stands in our way are the meanings about the experiences which by all appearances seemed to be the opposite of love.  In God’s view the only thing that occurs in our lives is love and the opportunity to grow in love.  Both engender happiness at our core. The presence of happiness lights us up.  Being lit up allows us to shine love.  Shinning love makes us the messengers of God.
My prayer for us is the courage to see and release the false understanding that we are anything but love so we can message God’s presence to the world today.
If you believe that God is love and you are the messenger of love, what can God do to help you become aware of your message for others today?  Share in the comments.
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Be Of Function!

God is functional! The beauty of the Great I AM is God’s presence in everything and everyone.  God is extremely practical. God’s presence at all times means whatever is happening it can be used for the function of love. No matter what is happening, I can learn about love by being fully present in the moment.  My mind scoffs at this idea on several levels.  One argument it makes is for the impossibility of love truly being available in every situation and every being.  Another argument of my mind is that God would even bother to be present in certain places especially the darker ones. Lastly, my mind is certain that it knows all the potential outcomes and the surprising nature of God is just beyond its perception. Thankfully God does not operate the way my mind does. I do not have to operate within the limitations of my mind either.  My function can be the one God has for me.  When I choose God’s idea of function for me, I grow in love from situations and circumstances where I thought for certain love did not exist.  It is though it is God’s function to remind me there is no place where God who is love cannot and will not be
My prayer for us is the willingness to surrender our ideas of our purpose in this world as defined by our minds and open up to the functioning that God has for us.
If God is intensely practical, how could God guide you in being your best functional self today?  Share in the comments.
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Be Of Exchanging!

God is elusive! We seem to grasp the idea that we cannot hold all things at all times, in our minds, in our hands, nor in our perspective.  We are not meant to be present to more than one moment at a time.  The irony is that when we are fully present we are simultaneously aware of life at multiple levels.  There is a heightened sense of being when we let go of our agenda of how things should be.  When we let go of what has previously occurred and what we are concerned about for the future, we have a greater capacity to fully take in the now.  We exchange a preset idea for a possibility.  We exchange a control disposition for a trusting one.  Who we are being in this moment is an exchange of priorities.  Opting for the priorities of spirit versus priorities of the world.  And while at the beginning it seems like we will miss out, it actually ends up being the very experience by which we can wholly appreciate all life has to offer.
My prayer for us is the willingness to exchange our thinking for God’s and fully experience the now moment we are in.
What focus on the past or future keeping you from the now are you willing to exchange for a fuller experience of life with God in this moment?  Share in the comments.
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Be Of Rootedness!

God is grounding!  I know that when I feel like life is throwing me about and I am at the effect of life I feel unsafe and unsure.  In those moments I need God to be more than just there for me.  I need God to be the anchor of life and love.  I need God to be the resounding voice of assurance that even though I am not feeling connected to the core of who I am, God only sees the connection.  It is not about being saved from my experience, it is about knowing that I can weather the storm. It is about having faith in a power that is never swayed to see me differently because of my experiences.  It is about trusting that God’s vision of my true self is grounded in the fundamentals and truth of love eternal.  God knows it is only a matter of time before I remember the same.  God is willing to be by my side as I make my way back to  being rooted in the wholeness of myself and others.
My prayer for us is the courage to trust that God is rooted in the truth of who we are in love at all times even today.
If God is rooted in the truth of love and  sees only our wholeness, who are we rooted in when we only see our brokenness?  Share in the comments.
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Be Of Oomph!

God is the oomph.  The incredible experience that we seek in our heart to be connected to the Power of All That Is guides us in ways that we don’t even realize.  God is calling to us through so many different avenues in our lives.  We get stuck thinking God is nowhere to be found because God is not playing by our thinking.  There is an underlying oomph of love in the universe that keeps the flow of life ever constant.  God is this flow. You hear performers and athletes talk about being in the flow when they are on the field or stage.  Artists finds themselves caught up in their work, almost swept away by a sense that a spirit is moving through them.  Even in our every day we encounter moments when time is lost.  This flow and movement of life is the strength of God’s power that sweeps us away in moments that never seem to end.  These are accessible to us any time we want.  The oomph of life moves through us all the time.
My prayer for us is the willingness to stop and connect with the oomph of life that is happening for each of us multiple times each day.
If God’s powerful flow of life is with you at all times, how would you want to be present with your oomph today?  Share in the comments.
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