dailydatewithgod

The beauty of living from the heart is in the capacity to share.  Our hearts radiate and energy that extends beyond our physical body space.  The Institute of Heart Math has been studying this scientific phenomenon for more than 30 years.  We have the ability to impact the room we are in, the streets we walk on, and the office space we create all from our hearts.  The beginning of being able to use this capability for the benefit of ourselves and others is in the conscious connection to our own hearts.  In my daily prayer and meditation dates with God the heart is the space God invites me into.  Our hearts hold the core of the love from which we were created.  Being willing to sit still long enough and take a look is the power to dare to know God.  Sometimes as in my case there are all kinds of structures and stories on top of the energies of our heart.  God gives us the compassion to take a patient look.  We may run for a long time but the moment we are willing to peak, God is there to guide us.  God already lives there and wants us to be reunited with the beauty that lies underneath all the supposed protection we have placed on our hearts.  God knows we can radiate the purity of love and kindness we are when we become reacquainted with it.  One breath at a time we will connect with the radiation power of love stemming from us and to all around us.

In the Hebrew scriptures God tells Jeremiah that before he was in his mother’s womb, God knew him and formed him.  Before I was a glimmer in my parent’s eyes, my heart not yet formed had been pierced by the love of the Creator.  God found a vehicle through which to make love manifest in me and in you.  God’s mission is love and so we are brought into reality to share in that mystery of love.  This has been decided before we even take shape.  We are called to pierce the reality of life with this same love.  Just by showing up we are the message of love which is even deeper than our core essence.  When I set out on my daily prayer and meditation date with God it is my intention to be brought back to a place of remembrance of this truth.  It is the piercing of my own heart that needs to happen if I am going to have any hope of being what I am ultimately called to be.  It doesn’t take much for other elements to get piled on top of my heart to the point of needing a piercing followed by an infusion of God’s presence.  Thankfully we all are not in this same space at the same time.  We are surrounded by living and walking embodiments of being pierced alive by the power of love through each other.  In any given moment I am the one who demonstrates the visibility of the love and power of God or the one who needs it from you.  No wonder we are surprised by the power of love.  When we need it the most it might feel almost invasive and heart breaking instead of heart building.  It is only the layers (ideas, beliefs, misunderstandings, false protections) that we placed on top of our hearts that hurt when pierced.  At our core the piercing feels like a life line to the eternal because it is.

The more I find God leading me to an inner knowing of our relationship the more I am fascinated by the undefined, unknown, and mysterious elements of life. I thought if I slowed down long enough all I would see is the gross and dirty spaces in myself that would reveal who I really am.  God daily invites me to take a look at what is even deeper than that. I can tell that I have grown in my trust of God as a guide in my life because I don’t approach such experiences with fear as my default.  I am willing to learn instead of needing to have the right answers.  I am open to seeing from a different perspective instead of being threatened by anyone who presents an opposing view.  I am courageous enough to walk into an experience or relationship with no agenda as to how it is supposed to turn out instead of needing to determine ahead of time if it is worth showing up for.  This space of instead provides a channel for choice.  It is the idea that in this place of instead a choice can be made to go in either direction presented or find a new one.  Life will happen no matter what.  My approach to it is about how I want to show up as myself, not the situation itself.  It is a focus on the process instead of the content.  On our daily prayer and meditation dates, God calls me closer through my breath to be instead of do.  Living most of my life as a human doing instead of a human being means letting go of some well grooved ideas in my entire being to allow for this possibility.    God is all about possibility and willingness and when we take a moment to step back and look at our lives from the space of what is possible there are multiple insteads.  It is not even about a choice between two things.  It is a recognition of life being this instead of that or what instead of whom or how instead of when and each one expanding on the other.  I do not pretend to know where this relationship is heading because the moment I think I do, God leans in and whispers “or instead . . .”