God secures. To be drawn to God is the fulfillment of our truest nature. We were designed to be connected to our Creator. There is so much that God finds fascinating in us, why wouldn’t we find ourselves equally attracted to God? It is about recognizing the face of God in all things. It is about coming home to the heart of understanding our oneness. Cultivating this awareness is what God shows me on our dates. When I am in alignment with my true self I see and hear the presence of God as the things to which I am attracted. Our desire and our attraction when driven by love is unity. We live in a world that tells us what is most important is to stand out and be unique. We do stand out and are unique as none of God’s creations are exactly the same. But the purpose of our uniqueness to open our eyes to the multiple possibilities of the presence of God. I can start by paying attention to what I am attracted to and what I like. This is never separate from God because the true nature of my attraction stems from my heart.
Be Of Attraction!
My prayer for us is the curiosity to notice today what we are attracted to in others, the world, and ourselves and begin to create an understanding of the multitude of possibilities that is God.
If God is drawn to us and knows that our hearts speak and see the world as God does, what might your heart be attracted to that shows you a new face of God today? Share in the comments.
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Be Of Reliability!
God is sure. All things will fade away but the love of God. We can rely with perfect certainty that God is. The way I have come to this place of reliability on God is through practice. When all other things have fallen away what is left standing is the reality of love. At the end of the day, I did not create myself. Within me is this underlying sense of being that propels me forward even when I think I cannot last one more minute. It is the seed of love planted in me from before I was born. It is my connection to God. It doesn’t always make sense to my mind but my heart knows and thus keeps beating.
My prayer for us is the courage to trust in the reliability of God being God.
If God is reliable and we have been created by God, what might reliability in your capacity of love look like today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Essentialness!
God is binding. As we take a close look at our lives there are many things that we find necessary for our survival. These we would consider our basic needs. Above that would be the things we want and desire but are not necessary. We have an essential element that is inherent in our being and that is of love. It is the driving force of the universe. It is the one piece of life that would unbind us if it were not there. It is not often thought of as a necessary for survival because we are not talking about survival. We are talking about the makings of life. If there is no life, there is nothing which has needs. Our essential nature created from God is one of love. It is the expression of who we are, it is what propels the continuation of life, and it is the element that binds us to God. All the true needs in my life are measured by their role in maintaining my essential nature.
My prayer for us is the courage to begin to balance our needs by those that keeps us in touch with our essential nature today.
If God designed us out of love for love, what needs might serve the growth of your essential nature today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Virtue!
God is pure. As an extension of God we also posses a purity of love as part of our nature. It is not something we earn, we are inherently virtuous. We don’t do it because we have to make it up to God for being born impure. Growing up I was certain that I was tainted and dirty. I felt gross and disgusting and I didn’t connect with why until I remembered the incest later in life. All I knew at the time was that something felt very wrong inside of me. Whatever our circumstances we have all thought and felt similar things. I thought I had to cover this lack of virtue and carried the shame of imperfection. It propelled me into thinking I needed to earn God’s love and prove that I was good enough. Unfortunately the religious ideology under which I was raised reinforced the belief that I had messed up somehow and had to continually be virtuous enough to show I had truly accepted God into my heart. As I have matured and grown in my relationship with God I can see the false nature of this sense of virtue. We are virtuous by our very nature. What we are called to do in our relationship with God is accept this as true and live into it. We may not always act virtuous but our behavior does not change God’s creation.
My prayer for us is the courage to accept ourselves as the children of God who possess the virtue we desire and walk in that truth today.
If God has created us in his image, how might you be open to embracing the virtue of love you are and always have been today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Projection!
God exalts! The beauty of living from our hearts is that we have the opportunity to project love into the world. We then create the atmosphere and the reality in which we exist. The love we project ignites the love in others and we implement a resonance that is stronger and more cohesive. This is what happens when people are at a religious event or a group meditation. The projection of love set the bar and an expectation of the growth of love. The essence of who we are is love so it is our natural projection of energy. However, if we have layered other things on top of our hearts it is the layers that gets projected. Then the reality of our energy comes back to us and we see what is layered on top of our hearts. If we are not careful we blame what comes back at us as the problem and don’t recognize what is calling for love within us. Our projections love or not are a gift to ourselves because they allow us to get in touch with what is love and what is a call for love.
My prayer for us is the willingness to pay attention to what comes back to us when we project our energy into the world and ask God to embrace that which is lacking in love today.
If God designed us to project the energy in our hearts so that we might share in love with others, what is God calling you to love about yourself that is present to you from your projections today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Circulation!
God flows. Our hearts are the core seed of love. In our design God made sure that whatever we might do or become in our lives we would not be able to destroy our core. Despite many of the things we have experienced in our lives, we are still built on love. Love is and will always be what circulates within and around us. The blueprint of us contains the plans for the continual flow of love. We can obstruct the flow but we cannot keep it from happening entirely. We can slow it down or speed it up but we cannot prevent the circulation. To do so would end our lives. But even when we end our physical lives the circulation of the love we are continues on because we have interacted with others and affected their circulation. If we doubt in the least that this is how it works we need only to look at a physical diagram of our circulatory system. It is aided by our respiratory system. We take in spirit through our breath and it guides the flow of love through all of our being from our heart center. And it happens over and over multiple times a day most often without our awareness of it.
My prayer for us is the courage to accept the circulation of love as a given and release ourselves into the joy of knowing we are circulating love at all times.
If God has set up a system for love to circulate through us all day long, how can we breathe in the power of that love and experience the joy of our circulation today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Conferring!
God bestows. The grace of love is within each one of us fully and completely at all times. We just think it is not there because we have stopped connecting to our hearts for the answers. We look to outside sources for our answers and our definitions. Showing up for my daily meditation date with God has shown me that it is when I take the time to cultivate the knowing of my heart, I begin to experience true peace of mind. If I waited until my mind was cleared to be willing to take on the task of showing up for our date each morning, I would still be waiting. Only by showing up, just as God does for me, and being present to whatever is present in mind and body and allowing God to take my hand to my heart, did the peace of mind emerge. It is not always easy. My mind is full of reasons and resistance to being with the entirety of who I am. My body may be uncomfortable and my mind may be running a bunch of stories that will not quiet down. It is then that I take God’s hand to my heart and ask to be shown what is hiding underneath all the commotion. I allow God to confer upon me the gift of the presence of eternal love and acceptance exactly as I am in this moment.
My prayer for us is the courage to show up where God calls us to connect with our hearts and allow God to confer upon us the graceful gift of love and acceptance this day.
If God is ready to grant us the gift of unconditional love just as we are, what are you willing to guide God’s hand to conferring in your heart today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Favor!
God ignites. Within each one of us is the power to merge powerfully our inner experience with our outer experience. It calls upon us to explore the inner workings of our heart and walk on a journey of discovery. The discovery of the make-up of our hearts is like finding the treasure within us that God favors. God is purely present in our hearts which is the seed of love within us all. We too will find favor in this space because from it extends the truth of who we are. The more we rest in this favor, the more joy and peace we will experience in our every day lives. It sounds too good to be true and in a world full of conditions it most likely is. But the realm of the heart is God’s favorite because it is our opportunity to be the love we are for each other and know the joy of God.
My prayer for us is the courage to embark on the journey to find the place of favor in our hearts today.
If God is in favor of us knowing our hearts, what might you be willing to explore within you today with favor that previously looked too dark to touch upon? Share in the comments.
Be Of Observance!
God is present. When we acknowledge the presence of God in all things we are calling to attention the sacredness that exists within everything. It is the recognition of the purest nature of an element to see the presence of love in it. When we observe the true presence of something or someone we give ourselves permission to treat it with sacredness. Acknowledging the sacred increases the resonance of love in our hearts. Then it is our hearts that become the observers and the eyes through which our perspective is formed. The observance and honoring of the sacredness is essential to building the sight of our hearts. God calls us to observance of the true nature of life because it is already within our capacity. God would not ask of us something for which we were not already equipped. We can reach for the hand of God at any moment we decide to be in observance of the truth of life and God will kindly lead us in the direction of our hearts.
My prayer for us is the willingness to ask God to show us the viewpoint of our hearts so we may be in observance of the truth of life today.
If God gave us the capacity to see the sacredness of all of life, how might you be open to be in observance of this truth of life today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Withdrawal!
God is whole. In my daily dates with God I see the elements of my thinking that create a barrier between me and God. I am not always willing to withdraw them because they still work for me. It usually takes the breakdown of a way of being or an idea that has run its course that causes me to let go and surrender. I take God’s hand and ask to see it the way God sees it. I am willing to withdraw my way of being and thinking when it is clear it is coming between me and God. I cannot get to the point of withdrawal until I do and I find that fighting myself or shaming myself to get there before I am ready is futile and creates more havoc. God never forces withdrawal. God just stands ready with open arm to embrace me and walk me to a sense of peace when I am ready to withdraw.
My prayer for us is the courage to be true enough to ourselves and acknowledge when it is time to withdraw into the arms of the peace of God.
If God will not force withdrawal of our painful thinking and being, how can you be more accepting of your resistance to withdrawing today? Share in the comments.
