dailydatewithgod

Sharing my experiences and understandings of the Great I AM.

Aug 17

Be Of Aptness!

by Colleen
God is here.  There are certain characteristics we will find helpful as we go through our lives.  Some will come naturally as they are an extension of who we are.  Some will be ones we develop with time.  As we grow emotionally, mentally, and spiritually it is important to acknowledge the characteristics that increase our aptness to a deeper relationship with our Creator.  Connecting with our truest selves is our key to freedom.  Being who God created us to be in every facet of our lives is our joy.  In our design we are beacons and messengers of love.  It is the signature of our creation.  We can forget who we are or take on characteristics that we think define ourselves as not who God created us to be.  When we are in a place of readiness to connect with God we know we are in alignment with our true selves.  I have times when the last thing I am looking for is where God is. Typically my lack of aptness to relationship with God comes from an idea I have of God that is of my own making.  I fear God will show up in a way I do not like or want.  When I catch my resistance, I have learned to set it aside momentarily and trust in God of a different understanding and see what happens.
My prayer for us is the courage to notice our aptness to involving God in any area of our lives that we do not want God involved in today.
If God is willing to love us wherever we are, what resistance might you be willing to let go of and thus be apt to have God show up in your life today?  Share in the comments.

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Aug 16

Be Of Release!

by Colleen
God receives. One of the most comforting visions for me as I walk this spiritual path is what happens when I release something.  It could be an idea, a person, an experience, a definition of myself, a meaning, a relationship, a pattern of being, a belief or an action.  My ego has tied it to my identity and does not want to let it go.  I fear the void.  I am not sure what life will be like without it, even if it no longer serves me.  Clinging to familiarity is something we all struggle with.  The courage to walk through the release comes in seeing the hand of God.  This same hand that guides me continually to the deeper experience of love is open and ready to receive whatever it is I am willing to release.  I have also seen that when I release it to God, God can make more of it than just a void.  Sometimes I am given the opportunity to see it from a different angle when it is in God’s hands.  Sometimes it is given back to me to do more with at a later time.  God is full of surprised but mostly things I could not conceive of on my own.  It makes the release easier and for that my spirit and my heart rejoice even if my ego is still suspect of the process.
My prayer for us is the curiosity to release something we fear letting go of into the hands of God and see what happens today.
If God is ready to receive whatever it is we are willing to release, what might you be interested in releasing to something more powerful than you today?  Share in the comments.

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Aug 15

Be Of Embracement!

by Colleen
God envelopes.  We are clothes and surrounded by love on all ends.  God makes sure that we experience love at every turn.  Our eyes may be opened or closed to it but it is there for us to be embraced by if we so choose.  God’s embrace stems from an inner experience.  I have come to know it my daily meditation dates with God.  But I also experience it outside of our date time. God is always finding ways to embrace us with love.  For me the key is to be present enough in the moment and notice it.  If I am lost in fear or worry or future tripping I may miss it.  The good news is the very moment I return to the present, I can see and experience the embrace.
My prayer for us is the willingness to be present enough and experience God’s embrace that is both within and outside of us today.
God is ready to embrace us at any moment we are willing to receive it.  How can you let God know you are willing to be embraced today?  Share in the comments.

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Aug 14

Be Of Concern!

by Colleen

God cares.  From the very beginning we were a thought in the mind of God.  Even before we took physical form the love that would develop every cell and atom that became us was intricately attended to.  This concern for the whole of us did not end when we arrived physically in this world.  God does not compartmentalize they way we do.  The love from which we were created is as alive today in us as it was before we were around to question it.  Sometimes we get so busy looking for evidence of God or something of love we end up looking in the wrong direction.  We assume it is out there.  We believe it will come from this or that place.  We think it is embodied only in a particular fashion.  But God’s love and concern for every living thing never has just one way of expressing itself.  Love manifests in every corner, through every experience, and in everyone.  It may look like darkness.  It may appear to be the opposite of God, but how can something erase its source.  God is either everything or God isn’t.  My challenge is to remember to turn to my Creator and receive the genuine demonstration of God’s concern in the form it is showing up in this present moment and not be blocked by how I think it is supposed to be.

My prayer for us an open heart and mind to see God’s demonstration of concern for us in as many ways as God wants to show us today.
If God is always concerned with us, how can you be open to receiving God’s love for you in the way God is choosing to present it in this moment?  Share in the comments.

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Aug 13

Be Of Facileness!

by Colleen
God is ease.  The relationship of our hearts that we are called to live to the best of our abilities each day is the facile one.  When we remember who we are and are not fighting reality there is an ease and a flow allowing us to be at peace with ourselves and the world. Peace of mind is a sign that we are in alignment with our truest selves.  It is not about us being what other people expect.  It is not about being perfect or a model of perfection.  The joy that comes from this facile way of being outweighs any of the world’s acknowledgment of achievement and success.  My experience of receiving the world’s acknowledgment all the while not being at peace with myself taught me the illusionary nature of the world.  The facileness I experience during my daily meditation dates with God are a hint of what I can expect throughout the day when I remember to come back to my own heart.  If I breathe into the space of love in my heart during whatever outside circumstance there is a facile entrance into being okay no matter what and that is priceless.
My prayer for us is the courage to abandon in some small way the complicated rules of the world for the facile nature of our hearts and be at peace with ourselves today.
If God makes it as easy as a new breath to return to the space of our hearts, what complicated element of your life might you want to transform into a facile way of being so you may experience peace around it today?  Share in the comments.

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Aug 12

Be Of Returning!

by Colleen
God is core.  As the design of our being goes we cannot function without the core of who we are.  It can be called by many names.  The name is not important as the return to the center of who we are.  Many things are constantly calling us outward.  Our attention is being diverted left and right. It is hard to know which one to follow. We look to the masses of people and think perhaps their way is what we should be doing.  In many ways it serves us to follow along with family or society.  The process of maturing into our God-designed selves is one which calls for discernment.  I can no longer blindly carry around the beliefs of my childhood as they may no longer serve the greater good in being who I am created to be.  Each idea must be looked at in the context of my heart.  I am asked in my relationship with God to take these beliefs and return to the core of who I am to see if they are a match today.
My prayer for us is the courage to seek the guidance we find when return to our core center in which God resides as love.
If God knows that we will be at peace when we return to the core of our being, how do you experience God calling you to return to the space of love today? Share in the comments.

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Aug 11

Be Of Home!

by Colleen

God is within.  Before I took a chance on slowing my life down long enough to take a good look at it I was living at the effect of everyone and everything around me.  My whole existence centered around surviving which meant vacillating between battling my inner demons and numbing out from them.  Deep down I had this belief that I had somehow messed up so irreversibly that I could never make it up.  Being the persistent type of person that I am meant I was going to die trying.  Unfortunately my version of trying required a lot of numbing out.  By all appearances life wasn’t that bad.  I was just an obese young woman slowly killing herself with food to cover up the sadness, anger, and fear despite my faith in God.  It wasn’t until I could no longer keep moving forward on this trajectory.  I could no longer lie to myself that I would eventually figure it out.  I had enough sense of God because of some spiritual experiences even as a little kid, but I wasn’t sure they were enough to hold on. Looking back I realize that entering into recovery was God’s answer to my plea years before that to show me what I was doing to push God away.  God wanted me home in my heart as much as I wanted it.  God no longer wanted to see me run and abandon myself because God saw and continues to see me as the whole and beautiful bundle of love created out of love.  Today my life looks nothing like it did physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually 14 years ago. It also looks nothing like I thought it would.  The one thing that grounds me is my daily meditation dates with God.  In that space I get to renew my commitment to be at home in my heart, just for today with each breath in and out.  Then as I go through my day I can return home to my heart by taking a conscious breath in and out.  I never would have guessed it could be that simple.

My prayer for us is the courage to slow down long enough and decide if we long to return home to our heart and trust that what God placed within our hearts from our beginning is waiting for us.
If God designed our hearts as the home space to connect with God, what might cause you to slow down and explore what your home is like today?  Share in the comments.

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Aug 10

Be Of Fluctuation!

by Colleen

God flows. Each moment we are alive there is a fluctuation that is occurring within our bodies.  It is the fluctuation of our breath.  In and out.  In and out. It is not only happening inside of us but all around us.  Everything in nature fluctuates.  All systems of industry and commerce fluctuate.  People’s ideas fluctuate.  This movement of energy is a constant.  The fluctuation is the evidence that everything changes.  Learning to be in the flow of this energy is what gives us our freedom.  We are diseased when we try to take reality and make it some sort of static way of being.  We are trying to fight reality when we want to stop the fluctuation.  Yes, it can be scary to fluctuate and think there is nothing we can hold on to.  But what if it is equally exciting?  What if, God is here to take our hand and walk through the fluctuations with us?  What if God is the constant presence bringing us back again and again to the truth of who we are at our core? God is the center of our being that remains unchanged by any fluctuation.  Being a part of the fluctuation is about the exploration of life all the while knowing deep within that we cannot be unfluctuated by anything.

My prayer for us is the willingness to give God’s hand a try, be in the fluctuation of life and maybe even enjoy it today.
If God is present in and through everything, what might your heart be willing to let go of to enjoy the fluctuation of more love today?  Share in the comments.

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Aug 9

Be Of Splendidness!

by Colleen
God glorifies.  The very nature of love calls forth the magnificence of life.  It is through the expression of love we experience its splendid nature. We know this when we are awed and surprised by the beauty of life.  We remember this when we allow our hearts to be moved in a magnificent fashion by the simple exchange of love from a smile or a hug. The splendid nature of our hearts that God placed within us continually calls us to be in alignment with the blueprint of who we are at our core.  There is no shortcut to getting to our hearts. For me, this meant facing the pain built around my heart first so I could participate as God melted the icy iron structure I had placed there.  The only way to it is through it. The gift I discovered in being willing to do this was not what I feared, more ice and iron.  Instead I found a splendid display of warmth and love that had been with me all along.  If I had not been willing to take God’s hand and venture to bring the darkness into the light, I would have missed out on the splendid nature that grows unceasingly.
My prayer for us is the willingness to face what we think is our darkness and bring it to the light so we may see its splendor today.
If God knows at our core there is a splendid abundance of light and love, what hardened or darkened elements might you be wiling to take God’s hand and bring to the light today?  Share in the comments.

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Aug 8

Be Of Variation!

by Colleen
God distinguishes.  In the realm of the spirit we are all one.  We are aware of our current similarities now when we get to the essence of our hearts.  When we focus on our outer appearance or circumstance we see the variations present.  It is not an either or proposition.  There is room for it all.  If we remember God is in all of us and all our experiences we can quickly begin to notice the variations of God.  This how we are able to embrace the reality of God.  God is a variety of manifestations and experiences.  We are not confined to one understanding.  The only requirement be an acknowledgment that God is. What God is changes all the time.  It keeps our relationship fresh and reminds us that no matter what God can be present in and through everyone and everything.
My prayer for us is the courage to let go of our ideas of what we know God to be and embrace the variations of love present in us and around us today.
If God knows we are a variation of love, what might you begin to look at through God’s eyes in yourself as a variation of love today?  Share in the comments.

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