dailydatewithgod

God is Flow. There is a never-ceasing energy that moves and breathes in and around us.  It is a force of love that guides all that is.  We are as much a part of that fluid force of life as anyone else.  We are an integral part of life’s existence.  Whenever I think that somehow I have gotten things wrong or I have messed up beyond belief, I try to remember to bring myself back. Back to the space inside my heart that hopes and believes God knew what God was doing upon my creation.   When I am lost and thinking nothing matters or it will all end anyway, I try to remember to breathe and see it as the gift it is.  When I am tired and frustrated and ready to give up on myself or my fellow human beings, I try to remember to be willing to believe that this too shall pass.  My desire to remember comes from a fluid place inside of me connected to the Flow of God.  My daily meditation date time with God that I show up for whether I feel like it or not, has given me the strength to try to remember and helps me to do so.  I don’t see the value on that day per say, but when I am struck by these moments of lack of fluidity I can look back and realize it has kept me connected.

God is the Designer.  Being in relationship with God means that we are called to celebrate our creativity. It is part of our nature.  Creativity is the ability to create.  The world gives the label of creativity to artists and performers.  We all are creative on some level and not always in a typical fashion.  If ever you doubt your creative mind just recall the last thing you were afraid of or worried about and the story you created around it.  Owning who we are as children of God means seizing the opportunity to funnel our creative way of being into something useful, uplifting, or even transforming.  Why spend all our creative genius imagining worst case scenarios?  Why not opt for using our creativity to inspire, celebrate, and enjoy life?  Each breath we are starting with a clean slate and can choose to design our next moment.  For me it is about remembering that my gift of creativity is God-given and I believe God would want me to use it to rejoice instead of fear life.

God is present.  This moment right here, right now is where the Eternal is.  God has orchestrated a profound design of creation of which we are a part.  To come face to face with God, we need to be willing to be in alignment with all the elements of God’s orchestration.  We cannot fight reality. At least, as much as I have tried, I have not been able to do so.  Typically the reason I am fighting reality is because I have made a decision that what is, is not okay.  What is, shouldn’t be happening.  What is does not meet with my expectations.  What is seems less than.  What is is not enough.  There is no circumstance or reality in which I can know everything that is involved.  Herein lies the humility.  Of course, things are going the way I think they should.  I have a limited perspective on what is happening.  Of course, things are not enough, my mind is programmed to look for what is missing.  Over and over again in my meditation date time with God I hear the simple call to keep my eyes focused on God.  I am known to even fight the idea that focusing on God is enough.  But how could focus on the Creator of All Creation be anything but enough?  Do I think that God will forget about or abandon me?  There have been a number of times in my life, when I was pretty sure God had left or turned his back.   However, it was me who my place in the music.  The key for me is remembering that when I am focused on God I am best able to be present to the focus God has on me.  I need to realign myself with symphony of God’s orchestration that got blocked when I stopped following the conductor.

God is the answer. We encounter many questions as we go through the day.  Many we answer automatically and figure life is about having the right answer. If we can explain the outcomes to ourselves and others, we figure we got it covered.  God invites us to explore life, to be open to the myriad of possible solutions from our head and our heart.  God calls us to a deeper knowing that creates solutions where none may appear at first glance. God invites us to dance in the uncertainty of not having solutions.  We think having the answer will keep us safe. We think knowing protects us from being too vulnerable.  But if God is our answer and provides us the gift of love in our vulnerability, we can be open to learning another dance step or taking a turn with another partner.

My prayer for us is the courage to trust the solution of God to all things so we can embrace the dance of the question today.

If God is your solution, what questions would you spend time dancing with today?  Share in the comments.

God uplifts and encourages!  Engaging in the beauty of relationships with God means remembering the esteem in which  God holds us.  We cannot simultaneously depend on God and view ourselves as less than worthy without a conflict in our being.  If I am willing to trust in God’s perspective on things I have to include God’s perspective of me. Sometimes my resistance to welcoming God more fully into my life stems from not being open to God’s view of me.  I get stuck in my own perceptions, created by my limited mind and forget God’s perspective is deeper and wider than what I can comprehend with my head.  I need a boost.  My daily prayer and meditation routine is about my willingness to receive the boost of perspective and set my course for the day.