dailydatewithgod

Within the realm of human experiences is the opportunity to experience life on multiple levels.  Our physical senses alone give us the chance to taste, touch, hear, see, and smell our lives.  Then there is the intuitive sense or feelings we have about our lives.  We have a spiritual sense about what is happening and a mind sense that interprets the information from the physical senses.  There are probably ones we do not have names for.  All of these are vehicles through which to experience and make meaning out of our lives.  We use the information presented to make decisions about what we want to experience going forward.  We also sometimes make the information itself wrong.  The reality is the information coming from our senses has no meaning except for what we place on it.  A sense of smell is neither good nor bad but we have a reaction to it and determine it is one we want more or less of.  There are societal and family definitions of what is a good smell and what is a bad smell.  This varies depending on where, when, and within whom we grew up.  Our feeling sense is the same way.  A feeling of anger is neither good nor bad but we have attached a bad or wrongness to it and made it not okay. As a woman this is especially true.  Yet anger is a helpful signal to know when we feel threatened.  It creates a fire in us that may prompt us to make a decision.  The same for sadness or even happiness.  Our feelings are indications of what we are experiencing.  They are not us.  We are not angry, we feel angry.  We are not happy, we feel happy.  We run into difficulty with feelings when we identify ourselves as being them.  So why is it acceptable to say, I AM ANGRY but not acceptable to say  I AM FRESH when neither is the truth of who we are.  God encourages us to notice our senses and use them as information, not identification.  She is there to remind us that the truth of who we are is far beyond anything we could be boiled down to a smell, taste, or feeling.

To bring about courage means we must dig deep down within ourselves to find the light that propels us into being the love we are.  God fans this flame and encourages us to fan it with him through our breathing into our heart.  By drawing attention to our hearts and the energy we extend from it, we can fine tune our capacity to love beyond what our minds think is capable.  God is there to keep the encouragement alive by reminding us that we have the courage, despite what a voice of fear tells us.  Courage is not the absence of fear but the decision to go ahead anyway.  All those who have managed to love deeply and strongly will tell you there were moments when they thought their hearts would break in two.  God has and always will be the steady force to keep us alive through those heart pounding moments as we walk through the fear.  The spiritual path is one of a warrior of the heart.  We dine on the encouragement of God because we need it to survive.  To survive according to our truest selves is to love greater than ourselves.  We can start this journey by learning to focus on the encouragement and presence of love wherever our eyes catch it.  Reminding ourselves of the presence of love in all things big and small makes it that much more possible to believe it is alive in and through us too.

On my daily prayer and meditation dates with God as I bring my thinking for us to take a closer look I have noticed God veering more toward the framework of the functionality of things and thinking.  Instead of getting spun around by the judgment of good versus bad, God invites me to see if it works or not.  If it works, what is it working for or towards?  If it is not working, what might be created to make things work in the service of love?  The function of our lives is designed to be in the service of creating and growing love.  This is done by showing up for our lives as our true selves which emanate the presence of love in and through us.  When we are functional we are the magnification of love made manifest in our every day lived through the big and small elements we encounter with every breath.  We have misconstrued the notion of good or bad to such an extent that it is little about the intention behind what our actions and more about separating ourselves from each other by judging each other.  Yes, it is good if our actions function towards the presence and growth of love but if we stop at recognizing good or bad, we never get to what is motivating the actions.  Often it is our misguided attempt to be good that can result in the dysfunctional love we are experiencing today.