dailydatewithgod

Each day is a new beginning and when we begin the day receiving the breath that we are given by God we are most open.  We probably have not yet had too many ideas yet of how things should go or what needs to happen so we are open to receive more than just a new breath with God.  This is why I picked this time to have my dates with God.  I figure if I wanted to be open to what God has in store for my life, I am more likely to be open and willing to listen before I have let my own mind clamor with its own ideas.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to spend one minute of our day with God before all else begins.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The world is filled with so much beauty and gifts that when we stop to be present to it our mind can feel overwhelmed.  Life is infused by The Great Creator with such passion that it is beyond our understanding.  We experience it in the moments that we allow ourselves to be present in our hearts.  We notice it in the times when our minds are quieted.  We breathe it in when we pause long enough to feel the breath come through our bodies.  It is there for us all the time.  We can be a companion to passion any time we want to be.  It only requires a willingness to let go and be in the moment.  Our hearts pound with excitement for life when we take new oxygen in.  Why wouldn’t our spirits be doing the same thing when we take in passionate love of creation?  My prayer for us today is that we be open to spending time in a moment of passion so that we can open the eyes of our hearts to the beauty that is within and around us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Love of God has no bounds.  The Love of God has no place where it cannot exist.  It thrives in the space and places where it is allowed to live and breathe and move.  When we align ourselves with God we get a taste of this love.  When we reside in our true selves we can be this LOVE.  Even so, what we experience is only a fragment of what is possible.  This is how LOVE transforms.  It shows up in ways that are beyond our understanding.  LOVE creates situations that we think are impossible.  It is not even within our realm of ego thinking of what is possible.  For that reason, I need to be connected to God in and through my life so that my mind can align with what is possible.  We live in a world of limits that focuses on what is different and not possible.  This comes from our ego’s understanding of the world.  We only need to be limited by our ego’s view to the extent that we want to handle everything on our own.  The unknown is scary to our ego because it is outside its capacity, but our spirit rejoices the moment that we are willing to step into the unknown.  People do it all the time and often it isn’t until afterwards that they realize what they have done.  Somehow, some way, there was a force inside of them that granted them the courage to step into the unknown and taste the immensity of All That Is.  This courage is within all of us, if we ask for it.  A common prayer for me is: God grant me the courage to (let go of my fear, have this conversation, believe that You are who You say You are, feel the feelings instead of running from them, act instead of react to this situation, be in this moment), and align my will with yours.  When I am willing to step into the immensity of God’s will, remarkable things begin to happen that were not previously possible according to my mind.  My prayer for us today is that we have the courage to ask for the courage to let go of our will and be aligned with God’s will so that we can experience the immensity of the power of LOVE in the moment.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Thomas Jefferson said,  “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Each day we are given the opportunity to choose life or to choose death.  Most of the time it does not come to us in such a dramatic manner.  It is all the little decisions of what to say, where to go, and with whom to interact.  We are given the choice each time to act in such a way that generates more life or destroys it. We can also choose to be awake when we do so or go by our programming which requires little presence and choice.  God invites us to create from a place of choice and strength.  With each newbreath we are given a wake up moment to our day, to the present moment.  We notice the moments that take our breath away–in good ways and bad because they really cause us to pay attention.  But what about all the littlebreaths in between?  What do we do with those?  Do we focus on thoughts of love and creation?  Or do we focus on thoughts of separateness and death?  Being vigilant means noticing, not judging, the thoughts that take up space in our heads.  It means noticing not judging the ones that we place meaning on (put greater energy into) thus creating feeling.  It means noticing, not judging, the feelings that we are making decisions to act from.  It means noticing, not judging, the character that we have developed as a result of the actions that we take in our lives.  True freedom then lies in being aware of the thoughts and asking God to align them with the Greater Good Will so that they ultimately create more love and life.  My prayer for us today is that we have the courage to vigilantly notice, not judge, the thoughts that go through our mind that we latch on to before we put meaning, feeling and action based on them.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

There is something so simple and yet so powerful that occurs when we speak things.  We take our thoughts and put vibration (sound energy) behind them.  This creates a live expression to our words that then carries them into the universe.  When we speak we create.  Before having spoken they are still thoughts in our heads and we have tons and tons of those all the time. Words are very powerful.  Think of how long we have associated the word red with the color.  Seems simple enough but once the label was placed on that color it took hold.  What thoughts do we give energy to by speaking?  What does that create in our lives?  Florence Scovel-Shinn said that our word is our wand. We create what we speak into the universe.  This is where we get the idea of self-fulfilling prophecies.  Once we have placed energy behind our thoughts and taken them outside of our head the are carried forward.  Words can be used to harm or to heal.  One of the most fascinating qualities of Jesus that I have noticed along with many other wise people is how they usually pause before they speak.  They consider carefully that which they want to create in the universe and then they do it.  It makes me wonder how many things I say out loud without considering the energy I am placing behind it and what it might create.  My prayer for us today is that we have the courage to pause before putting energy behind the thoughts in our heads so that we can create that which will bring love and healing.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The world holds such magical and beautiful elements of energy!  At every moment something new is being born into existence.  We live in a universe that supports expansion and growth.  This is the energy from which we are created.  This is the energy that resides in each of us.  Our ego mind, however, would tell us a different story.  It is not aligned with the spiritual understanding of creation.  It is only aligned with what it can create with itself.  Its main focus seems to be on separation.  We are very creative people, what we create depends upon what we are creating from–our ego mind or our spiritual being.  One is limited, one is unlimited.  Any easy test to see where our creations are coming from is to ask if what we are creating or have created brings a sense of peace and ease in the quiet moments or if it brings discord and disease.  It is not whether others approve of it or if it is acceptable by the greater society or if it will earn us an award.  The greatest achievement of our creations are those that engender love and reclamation (reminder of God’s presence in the world).  When I act (i.e. create) from a space of connection with God, I am creating a force for the opportunity for love growth and learning.  When I act from a space of disconnection, difference, separateness, I am creating a force for what serves me alone.  I often choose this under the guise that it will keep me safe.  If I choose to smile at someone because I want to be in the spirit of reclamation then I am aligned with my higher self.  I choose this when I remember that God has got me no matter what happens. Whether or not they choose to smile back is dependent upon what they are aligned with, not me.  Making the choice to be a force for reclamation is an act of creation.  What do you want to create today?  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to choose acts of reclamation because it is innate in us, not because it will be received by others.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is a given.  God is the answer no matter what the question is.  God is always God.  God is ever-present.  God is the one constant in our ever-changing lives which is why God is that which we can rely upon no matter what.  Our relationship with God ebbs and flows.  Our relationship with God doesn’t always feel constant, but feelings are not facts.  Our minds are equipped with tremendous mechanisms for survival and I am personally grateful for them.  They are after all also from God.  Our minds however, are not all we are.  Who we are, like God, is not dependent on circumstance or outer manifestation, or approval from others.  Who we are at our core transcends our mind’s understanding.  When we feel like things are stuck, life sucks, we are not enough, and everyone is out to get us we are relying on the unconstant perspective of who we are. The constancy of who we are is not based on our circumstance because they will change but our essence will not.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to let go of defining ourselves by our finite and ever-changing reality and be open to seeing ourselves as God sees us constantly.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

“Sometimes the very thing we are looking for is the one things we don’t see.” (Vanessa Williams song).  There is so much to take in at every moment it is easy to get distracted and find ourselves focused on that which does not pertain to us.  God has given us so many gifts and when our hearts are not open to receive them our mind will jump in to justify the rejection.  We will find ourselves focusing on what others have, how what we have is not good enough and get ourselves so caught up in envy and jealousy that we lose sight of all that we do have.  For me, when I find myself stuck in this trap I can turn my attention to what I like.  To ask to see that which is right in front of me that I am not noticing.  God, show me how to like my life, my choices, how I am being, my circumstances, etc.  If I am open to seeing them differently then I notice they are exactly what is needed for growth in love.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to recognizing the likes of our lives, at least one.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

 Mother Theresa said, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” In fact it is in the little things that we have the greatest opportunity to be love.  It puts its in much more sizeable chunks.  If we thought the only way to be loving was to give everything up and live as Mother Theresa did, we would probably never do it.  But smile at our neighbor or the driver who cuts us off, this we can do.  We may not want to, but it is not about want.  It is about acting our way back into our true nature.  We get caught up in our ego’s justifications for right and wrong and good and bad–in other words, our separateness, that we believe the lie that we are separate and need to remain so to be whole.  However, it is in the breaking down of the fallacy of our separateness from others, from God, and from ourselves that we are able to step into our wholeness and our connectedness.  I can remember today to do little things with the love that is given me from God because I know that it does not come from just me.  When we have our date time in the morning, I sit in a space of connectedness.  Whether I feel it or not, the time is for me to connect with My Creator so that when I have the choice of acting out of love or separateness I can choose love.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to do one little act of love so that it can inject that experience and remind ourselves that we are not separate from God.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

The miraculous thing about living and being in a space where we know who we truly are allows us to live in triumph.  If we know deep down that we are connected to All That Is, we can stand tall and know that whatever happens cannot destroy us.  Here in the physical earthly experience we learn of difficulty and stress and lack of peace, but it does not change who we are.  We are created by the Great Creator who designed us for love and to be love.  The fact that we don’t always remember that and own it is simply a case of forgetting.  That is why our conscious decision to reconnect with Our Creator plays a vital role in our day-to-day existence.  We need a space to restore and align ourselves with who we truly are.  We need to remember so that we can carry out and play the role for which our souls are destined.  My date time with God each morning creates the space and the opportunity to be reminded, which is why after a while it became so important to me.  Once I got a taste of remembrance and knowledge in my heart of the triumph over the human experience which had pulled me down, I was willing to do whatever it took to keep being reminded.  The beauty of the connection and the opportunity to be reminded is that because it comes from God and God is everywhere all the time, it can happen everywhere and anytime.  All I need to do is take a breath and ask that my eyes be opened from my heart so that I can again be reminded of the truth.  My prayer for us today is that we know no matter how far off the beaten path we may have gone today we remember we can stop and connect because no path leads us farther than God’s reach.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen