dailydatewithgod

As amazing as our minds are, they are limited.  They are limited to understanding in the physical realm.  Given that we are spiritual beings having a human experience we know in our deepest selves that there is more than the physical reality in which we are living.  Sometimes we get only glimpses of it, but when we get still enough we begin to connect with the Great Spirit.  This quiet time provides us with a greater perspective, greater thought on what is enfolding in our lives.  Many years ago, you could not have convinced me of this in the least.  According to my perspective, life just sucked on a lot of levels.  I had some good fortune but overall, things did not look good.  I believed in God and sort of trusted in him.  I say sort of because I limited the areas of my life that I invited God into.  It was when I began to take time for me and God each morning (rain or shine, wanting to or not wanting to, feeling like it or not, but just showing up and saying here I am God, what now?) that I slowly started to experience a different reality.  It is as though I have been given different eyes.  I have had to let go of many strongly held life long conceptions and continue to do so.  Sometimes I think God enjoys watching me chip away at them, probably because more light and love exudes from me as I do.  After lots of practice, when I find myself thinking in a way that is causing me to suffer (to be in dis-ease), I have enough presence of mind to stop and pause and ask God to help me see things as God sees things.  Sometimes it make take a fair amount of pain before I get there, but the time of pain seems to be less and less as I continue my daily date with God.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to take one thought or idea that is causing us distress and just ask God, how do you see this?  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Without even realizing it we as human beings have created systems that allow us to participate on every level in the consciousness of our Creator.  We embark on the experience of the ebb and flow of life with our beginnings and endings.  We continually create situations and experiences with our minds and our hearts.  We cannot deny that we come from the Great Creator, it is in our every cell.  Today is the end of the month, if we did not give it that label we might experience it as just another day without giving it any thought.  Tomorrow we will embark on a new month and with that comes the sense of new possibilities and choices to create.  We will take care of many of the first of the month activities like we did at the beginning of this month so as to experience the cyclical nature of life (a rather creative way for me to think of paying for my monthly rent, don’t you think?).  These moments of presence in the ebb and flow allow us to also participate in the promise of LOVE.  Because the very nature of our Creator is LOVE.  So when we close one chapter and start another instead of fighting to hold on to the one of today, we take a chance that we will be provided with everything we need.  We take God up on His promise that His love is there with every ending and every beginning.  We trust that God is with us in the mundane and the spectacular.  We open ourselves up to the idea that God does not run with uncertainty, but stands ever more firm in who God is because he cannot be anything less than he is no matter what happens. My prayer for us today is that we choose to walk in the knowledge of the promise that God is LOVE no matter what happens moment to moment.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

It is an illusion that we create when we have the thought that if we just knew what was going to happen we would be okay.  The human experience, despite all its laws of nature and ebb and flow is filled with many unknowns.  During the cave man times, the unknowns were much more life threatening than they are today.  Our minds, however have the same reaction to an unknown of a job situation as they do to going into a forest and possible encountering of a tiger.  Again, it is a genius of our minds that we can be prepared to face such danger.  However, given that the danger is less life threatening, we can acknowledge that perhaps we need not be as fearful as our minds would like us to think. This is where turning to God with whatever it is that I am facing is helpful.  God is the one true known in my life.  If I believe that God is everything then I can face any unknown that comes across my path.  It is the unknown’s in my life that I don’t see God a part of that are the true things to fear.  However, the moment I notice them, they become an invitation to bring God into yet another part of my life.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to take a breath and invite God into our space of unknown and be dazzled by our Creator’s knowing.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

There is profound prayer that I came across over 20 years ago written by Teresa of Avila.  It is a reminder that we were created by God to do the work of God, the work of love.  God has no hands, hearts, ears, or eyes and must use ours for love and compassion to continue.  When I look down at my hands and realize the profound capability I have of using them to reach out in compassion I am humbled.  I can also use them to clench and punch and write or type words of hatred and cruelty, the choice is mine. My prayer for us today is that we be open to how any one part of us can be used to help (LOVE) one another as God loves.  Make it a great one!  ~Peace, Colleen

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