dailydatewithgod

God is complete.  As children of an almighty creator we are designed whole and complete.  The essential part of ourselves comes already to go. Growing and connecting to that wholeness is our life long journey.  Our confidence and reliance upon the belief of the realness of our wholeness is the hope that guides us through the rough waters on our journey.  As I have become willing to accept myself entirely it has been easier to move forward in love.  The more I hold things about myself that I do not like with judgment or dissatisfaction, the more difficult it is to be with myself completely.  Embracing the entirety of myself and others is a God job.  My part is being willing to see myself and others and as God does.

God designed us entirely, what part of yourself might you be willing to see from God’s eyes of entire love in you today?  Share in the comments.

God is. Being is about presence.  Being is about living.  Being is about breathing. Walking day by day in my relationship with God is a reminder and an invitation to be aware.  We seek to understand our world from our mind’s perspective but what about all the waves of energy that move back and forth from our hearts?  The energy that cannot be measured by the naked eye is detected by the mind of heart. It is in this reality of our heart minds that God placed our blue print of love.  If we are guided from this space we can inform our intellectual mind with a soundness of being that creates peace internally and externally.  Going to the places and space in our lives that lack peace can only be done from a mind of love.  This is where I grasp God’s hand because I need to know I am not alone as I venture into the spaces of my heart that have gotten disconnected from the mind of love.  God show me where you are in this?  Help me to see the love that I do not see here.  

If God designed us with a mind of love built into our hearts,  what does you spending some time in your heart mind look like today?  Share in the comments.

If God designed our minds to see differences, would not God provide us with the tools to synthesize those differences within ourselves and others?  What in your life would you like to synthesize today?  Share in the comments.

God creates. We are gifted with tremendous capacity to create because we are made in the likeness and image of our Creator.  We began as an idea in the mind of God.  An idea to proliferate the energy and vibration of love in as many ways and places as possible and as more than possible.  When I reflect on the unfathomable graciousness of God’s love and attention for me I get only a taste of what it means to hold an idea with preciousness into creation.  I cannot create to the extent that God does but I can allow God’s ideas to move through me.  Each time I choose to focus on love and forgiveness I further the creation of God.  It also creates more of those in my life.  It is not about avoiding the opposite kinds of ideas but recognizing that they are a call to love in a way I had not yet conceived of.  Why would God create all the various feelings and experiences if they were not all valid?  My role in relationship with God is to bring them to God and ask, “What would you have me do with this idea?”  When I stay to long in a negative space or find myself hurting myself or someone else with a negative idea, I grab God’s hand and ask, “How do you see this?  Where is the love in this?”  It always comes back to the choice to bring my ideas to God and ask what role in plays in my life as a tenderly loved and adored child of my Creator.

If God designed us to create with our ideas, would you be willing to check with God to see if your idea is in alignment with God’s loving view of you today?  Share in the comments.

God remains.  When all else is said and done God is always there.  It matters little to God how often we stray or how far we stray.  In the end it is Eternal Hope that we choose to come back and stay.  All we will ever need can be found on our path with God. We may need for a time to look elsewhere just to make sure and then return to stay with a full heart.  My experience has taught me that the time I spent in distance from God also correlated to the disconnect in my own heart. Upon my return God never asked where I had been or why it took me so long to want to come and stay.  God simply reached out and accepted my hand. God’s hand offered a restoration of my heart resulting in a clearer vision of the path of love.  As a result, my heart was willing to be opened and healed, I find I long to stay more and more time on the path of the One who designed the way of my heart and my life.

If God is patient enough to watch us grow and learn, how might you be willing to keep searching for the path of love that makes you want to stay with your heart today?  Share in the comments.

God is whole.  We are returned to the truth of who we are when we embrace the God of our hearts. Our authenticity lies in our willingness to be frank with ourselves about our own truth.  It is not so much about declaring it to the world but claiming it for ourselves.  I spent the first part of my life hiding behind the expectations of others.  Here and there I would let my true self slip out but always guarded.  I thought this would bring me the sense of safety I longed for.  And it did, until it didn’t. The day I woke up and realized that the very thing that was saving me had turned into killing me was the day I could no longer lie to myself let alone others.  Coming to terms with the truth of who I am has been a long and winding road and one that will continue for my whole life.  My goal is to be frank enough with myself and with God so that each day I can hold my head high and keep it in alignment with my heart.  I am willing, one day at a time to discover the truth of my heart and live from there.

If God accepts us fully as whole and complete, how might you be wiling to be frank with yourself about the truth of who you are in your heart today?  Share in the comments.

God is now. The mysteries of God will continue to grow and expand the closer we get to solving them.  God is not a math problem to figure out. God is not a design to be detected.  God is about presence in the here and now moments.  Living a life in relationship with our Creator calls us to be open to the fascinating way love shows up in the moment we are in.  Right here, right now is where God is, always.  We miss it if we are busy somewhere else in our minds.  Thankfully God embodies an ever-generous nature which provides another present moment and a chance to be right here right after this one.  We get as many chances as we are willing to take to be present in the here and now where love is made manifest.  It will never show up in this exact way again.  If we want to be open to seeing and experiencing God in all the possible facets and ways of being, we have to be willing to be in this moment.  Several times this past week I noticed acutely when I would leave the moment I was in.  Whether it was someone telling me something and I realized I stopped listening or letting my mind wander in traffic.   I am grateful for the acute awareness but it is humbling to realize how many now moments I miss out on because I go somewhere else in my head.  There was a time in my life when it served me well and probably saved my life to escape the present moment. But today I am adult woman who longs to be with God as often as possible.  The full experience of God’s loving present is most fully felt right here, no other time.

If God is with us most fully when we are where we are right here and now, are you willing to take as many chances as you can to be present to love right here and now today?  Share in the comments.

God is freedom.  Before I earnestly sought out to create a relationship with God my understanding of freedom was limited.  It was a conceptual understanding in my head about an experience usually attached with a national identification or a mantra said at school every morning.  I spent my life feeling trapped and inhibited personally, mentally, and emotionally.  I had moments of breaking free and being myself but that was often met with skepticism and disdain   No wonder personal liberty remained something they wrote about in the constitution.  As I embarked on my daily prayer and meditation dates I was continually led to people and experiences that broadened my horizons.  I began to get to know God in different forms and myself.  Day by day my sense of liberty went from conceptual to experiential. What I did not understand is that liberty must be lived and breathed.  It is a choice.  A choice to believe that no matter my outside circumstances God has built within me the capacity for the freedom of love.  In my relationship with God, even if nowhere else, I can explore my personal spiritual, physical, emotional and intellectual liberty.  In doing so I am able to embrace the liberties inherent in the existence of everyone else as they are also a child of God.  There is nothing more liberating than giving yourself the permission to be yourself and doing the same for others.

If God designed us to be free to love and be loved, how might you be willing to meet God and explore your liberty today?  Share in the comments.

God gives. The reason God designed us for relationship is that God wanted us to experience the power of the full gamete of love’s aliveness. We have all experienced at one time or another, aware of it or not, the vitality that comes from love given and received.  It is what developed our hearts in our mother’s womb, it is what connects us to our family, and it is what keeps us from abandoning a person crying out in need.  Those heart-strings are strong. They may have been humanly bound by other forces (expectation, duty, lack of perceived choice, or even just automatic pilot), but the spark that made us grow and develop into a human being with a heart that longs to grow is God.  As an incest survivor my experience of love is full of duality. Love is betrayal and love is care. Most people’s experience of love is full of duality because as human beings we are not going to be master’s of it.  We are not going to know how to love in the purest way.  We may get tangled up in expectations or beliefs that have nothing to do with love.  None of that can taint the truth of love.  None of that can undo God.  In my recovery as I continue to learn more and more about the nature of God’s love, I am able to see that my early confusing experience of love is not how God operates.  Being in relationship with God means I have an opportunity to heal those wounds and always know where my true source of love originates.  It encourages me to not abandon myself or shut down my heart out of fear.  It is not easy, but at the end of the day, my willingness to take a chance on love in this world with God at my back, is what makes my heart grow alive.

If God designed us to be in relationship and experience the aliveness of love, how might you be willing to take a chance on God today?  Share in the comments.

God is all.  We are designed to encompass the total reality of love because our Creator is love defined.  We are an extension of this complete reality of love being all there is.  We are however living and breathing human beings who cannot at the moment transcend fully out of our human experience so our understanding of this totality is limited.  It can sometimes cause us to be confused as we seem to vacillate between being in a space of total love and being in a lack of love. We find ourselves striving to reach that space of enlightenment where love is all there is over and over again.  It is the great dance of being human.  My gratitude for the willingness each day to show up for the dance is what gives me the grace to accept imperfections and be open to seeing moments where I am not loving as opportunities to learn instead of failures.  I can easily slap on a blame of not being spiritual enough.  However, I am now are thar when the label of enoughness is put in there, I have embarked on a judgment conversation.  I cannot simultaneously judge and love at the same time.  Today I will choose love as often as I can.

If God designed us from a space of total love, how might you be willing to step into the totality of who you are today?  Share in the comments.