dailydatewithgod

The Knower of All has created such an intimate relationship with all energy.  All of creation has within it this knowing.  The eternal spark of God is still a part of everything that God has created.  The only reason we do not see it is because we are in a state of forgetfulness.  When we take time out to connect with God we begin to remember.  We remember the knowing of who we are and who we are being.  This is our intuition.  Our highest self is the knowing intimately the miracles that are reality.  The intuitive way of being is one with love.   In love miracles are the standard not the exception.  When we are asleep to our intuitive reality, the reality that is linked to God at the strongest level, miracles seem like bizarre shifting of reality not reality themselves.  Miracles of changing hearts and smiles that light up rooms are seen as inconsequential in a world of matter.  Who we are is not just a physical form.  Who we are is beyond form and beyond understanding when seen in the light of God.  To remain in the light we must believe in the light of love being present at all times in all places.  God doesn’t just exist in churches or mosques, forests or mountain peaks.  God exists, love exists in and through every thing that is energy.  For many years it was not safe to follow my intuitive bending. They didn’t match up with the reality of the physical world.  But I am no longer a child who relies on physical nature for sustenance.  I am a child of God who is connected to All That Is when I am ready to wake up and own it.  This path of remember has taken many false starts and silly slip ups but I am more grateful for the “mess-ups” than the staying asleep.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to awaken this intuitiveness within us and welcome God back home to our hearts.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Spirit who breathes life and love into all that exists has bestowed all the gifts of love upon you and me.  The light that exists within you that has always been there and will always be there, dances when we remember who we are.  This dance is the dance of bravery.  Bravery is when we step outside our fear and take contrary action.  Love is the opposite of fear.  To love is to be brave.  It takes fortitude to keep moving when the fear of our mind wants to bog us down.  It requires valor to own the light of love that burns within our heart and soul.  God is our champion.  God is our cheerleader.  God is ready to take our hand and guide us on this path of bravery when we are ready.  Being ready does not mean having it all together.  Being ready means owning who we are in this moment because it is the truth of God, not because we have earned it.  We cannot do anything to earn something that we already have. And because God is infinitely generous, we cannot do anything to undue the bravery that lies within us in our light and love.  The beauty of this world that impacts my heart is when I see love prevail.  Not because it is some romantic Hollywood notion of love, but because it is so brave to step into love.  When I see others do it despite the circumstances seeming otherwise, it gives me courage to do the same. Bravery is contagious.  It is why we cheer for the hero and the heroine.  It is why we get up each morning and take a new breath.  It is the Spirit of God (LOVE) within our hearts and souls that whispers the reminders that we are more brave than we think we are.  When we pause in a moment of distress when we do not think we can be the love that we are and reach for God’s hand, we are the brave souls that we know ourselves to be.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to remembering the bravery that exists within all of us to choose love in this moment.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

God of All That Is has called upon us to be the expression of All That Is.  The expression that we are is dependent upon us being authentic and present in the moment.  It is easy to take the path of following along in the herd, pretending as though we do not have a specific mission but it is not true.  God has tasked us with being ourselves.  God’s sanction is the only one we need.  By living in this acceptance of the truth of who we are we enable the power of love to carry on.  Love is not love unless it is given away.  Love is meant to be lived and shared.  God wanted to bring about love in a multitude of ways. With all of us living out this sanction of God we are bringing about God’s universe.  When I get caught up in my life being about getting the approval of other people I am losing sight of the main task of my existence which is to perpetuate love.  God, bring me back to what you are approving of for me in this moment.  God, help me to trust that your sanction is the only seal of existence that I need.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to believe that God’s approval of our growth in love is all that is needed to keep us breathing and being to the fullest. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is a God of Gusto!  God is fiercely compassionate and focused on love because it is who God is. It is also who you are because you are an extension of God.  We can experience being a part of the vine of God as Jesus mentioned, when we are willing to let go of the idea that we need to grow our own roots. We think to stand out and be special we must be separate.  That is what our ego mind tells us.  Being special simply means living from our heart.  We are already a unique expression of All That Is. Getting to know ourselves and being at peace with all of us is the key to living with zest.  How can we be excited and passionate about something that is not of us?  We all know the difference between when we are being authentic and genuine versus when we are doing things  because we “should” be doing them or because we are going to get something.  Sometimes I have to acknowledge that my decisions are based on a reaction to someone or something and not my genuine loving nature.  But I would not even be in a place where I could know that I do have an authentic loving nature within me, unless I had allowed God in to remind me.  These dates are part of that remembering time.  It is as though the time is set aside specifically so that God can reveal to me the fierce love and fire that God has within my own heart.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to concede that the zest of God lives in our own hearts and if we get quiet enough we can hear the sizzle.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Lover of all has made a decision!  This decision was made with clarity and power and breathed life into your being.  The decision was that you would be a path of love for the world.  Your significance lies in fulfilling this role. You do not need to explain yourself to anyone.  You do not need to justify your presence in the world.  The fact that you are present in the world and breathing means you have significance.  We look to the physical world to explain why we are here and that we are okay.  That makes us dependent upon the moods and feelings of others.  We are not dependent upon these outside forces to reveal to us our significance.  It lies in our own hearts.  On our dates God continually reminds me to focus on God. The specified time that we spend together each morning as I start my day is the most important because it sets my mind and my heart on the path of my significance.  Then I am able to be present to the hints throughout the day, the little “love notes” from God to remind me yet again of my significance.  I need these reminders and I ask God for them because I never want to lose sight of why I am really here and that I matter to the most important entity in the universe.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to set aside a few minutes as we start our day and allow our hearts to be reminded of our significance.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God of All Care has designed all that is with clear purpose and magnificence.  The creation of every element was done with the utmost in mind, in other words, fashioned to facilitate love.  We are designed with the same brilliance.  Our purpose is to be the messenger.  We are called to be the love from which we were designed.  Being the love means living, breathing, emanating, co-creating, facilitating, embodying all the facets and aspects of love that are possible.  The manifestations of love are arranged in such a fashion that allows us to be present for them as they are occurring both in and through us.  It is not something we do, it is something that we are.  In a world that values results and titles and go-getting and making things happen, it is hard to imagine that allowing the arrangement that already exists within us to be enough.  So we carry around this story that we are not enough. That is not God’s vision of us.  That is our version of us. God always sees infinite possibilities and pathways to love which is why anything and everything can ultimately lead us back to love.  We can never be separate from it, even when we feel separate from it.  The arrangement of love is built within us down to the ions that live in the molecules of the atoms of our every cell.  We are asked to surrender to the ideas the arrangements that our mind conjures up so that we can live and be in the reality of love that God knows us to be at all times. This is bliss, this is peace, this is enlightenment.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to let go of the arrangements that our mind is trying to conjure up to compensate for its story of not being enough and surrender to the possibility that God has already arranged the path for our return to the realization of love that we are.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Knowledge that God encompasses pervades our reality.  Faith is about trusting that the God who Is All, Knows All.  In our journey when we are ready to step into that knowledge we only need call upon our God.  When we keep our eyes focused on the One who designed us from the inside out, we can live knowing that what has been revealed to us is exactly what we need to be aware of in the moment.  There is nothing in this moment for which you are not ready.  There is no information you are lacking, something hiding from you, an operation of a denial that keeps you from doing what you are called to do in this moment.  It is hard for me as someone who has always sought out knowledge and understanding and places great value on education and an open mind to concede that perhaps I am not aware of something in this moment because I do not need to be.  I have been known to plead and prod God to understand, only to be met with silence.  I have harped, pouted, and thrown my hands up in the air exasperated as to why I have not been able to find peace with a situation and wanted God to reveal to me what I was missing.  (God knows I can be quite the drama queen).  But God is not moved to be less that the keeper of Knowledge who knows exactly the time and space in which to reveal to me the answers that I crave.  God calls upon me to trust in His Knowing, lean on His Heart when mine is troubled, and be still in this moment. So I quiet my tantrums, take a deep breath, reach for God’s Hand, and place it on my heart.  Breathing in the peace of knowledge of the presence of God, I am reminded yet again that it is the Only knowledge that needs to be revealed to me in this moment.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to trusting that what has been revealed to us in this moment is all we need for this moment.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God of All Graciousness is present right now in this moment.  In this moment God of All Wonder resides with us all.  The experiences we have in this universe of learning are based on the premise that we can give things a try to gather information.  Each step we take, each decision we make provides feedback when we notice what happens.  We get stuck when we decide that what happens as a result of our actions means something about us. When we look to the results of our actions and judge them as good or bad, we narrowly begin to define ourselves by our circumstances.  No outside circumstance can ever define who we are.  God defines who we are and did so when we were created out of great love.  The experiment of life is about taking chances so that we might learn more about how things work and get feedback on whether what we are doing brings us closer to God or further away.  We lose sight of the purpose of learning when every result becomes our self-definition.  In a universe of learning, humility is key.  When we are teachable, we are saying that we are willing to try things out and gather evidence.  This evidence feedback helps clarify the path towards love that we are on in this life.  I easily forget and become fearful to act because I am waiting for the result to define me.  I then have to turn to God and ask:  Remind me this is about learning and growing in love. No matter what happens, place within my heart the remembrance that You will never see me as anything less or greater than the love you placed in my heart at my conception. My prayer for us today is that we remember that we live in a universe of learning and are free to show up and experiment with what brings us closer or further to the love that we are within.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Impeccable Designer implemented love in physical form. So intricate is the great love from which we were created we could not unwind and get to the bottom of it if we had a million lifetimes.  Love does not make sense.  Love cannot be explained or understood fully.  We get glimpses of understanding and sense some of it like we can conceive of a drop in the ocean.  It is the Authority of God that commanded the physical universe to present itself. This commandment came from an overflow of love. Various scriptures in easter and western traditions speak of this unfathomable God that is responsible for all.  Sometimes our ego traps us into thinking it is our job to understand it all.  Perhaps our job is just to live from it.  Perhaps our role is to enjoy it.  Perhaps our place is to be in awe of it.  When we recognize the authority of God as that which created us from a space of love we are not less than we are simply the cherished ones.  I cannot begin to comprehend the love that God has for me or the authority from which that love began.  I have gotten glimpses of it and it seems almost magical. My mind is so full of judgments and exceptions and misconceptions stemming from relating to my physical reality that I have to step away from it in order to taste the love from which I was created.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to acknowledging the authority of love from which we were designed and spend as much time as we can feeling cherished.  Make it a great one !  Peace~Colleen

God of All is God of All Time.  God of All is God of All Hearts.  God of All is God of All Minds.  God of All is God of All Energies.  To begin to connect with the Great Spirit of All we must be willing to see how God is in all.  This means letting go of the ego’s notion that we are separate.  The world we live in defines most things by how they are different.  In the United States we live in a very individualistic society.  Individuality is neither good nor bad it is only harmful when it is equated with separateness.  If we see ourselves as separate from one another then it is not a far jump to see ourselves as separate from God.  If we adopt a mindset of separateness it is the lens through which we see all things.  God created us as individual expressions of God. We each bring a unique God element into the world simply by our being.  These unique factors and gifts do not separate us from God or from each other.  The fact that the driving force behind our individuality or uniqueness speaks of the profound nature of our connection.  When we notice our oneness, we can begin to genuinely reflect and give genuflection to each other because we recognize who we are in God’s eyes.  My prayer for us today is that we carry in our minds the spirit of genuflection towards God by our willingness to recognize God in one another.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen