dailydatewithgod

God speaks.  The language of God reaches into the farthest corners of the world and into the greatest depths of our heart.  The sound of God’s voice echoes in our souls, our cells, and our movements. The design of our Creator is such that we cannot help be expressions of our creator.  At our core we are an echo of God.  Our voices can also echo the message of love if we choose.  If we are connected to the truth of who we are at our core, then love is what naturally gets expressed in our intentions, actions, and words. It is in the times we are disconnected that our echoes will not be a reflection of God.  God does not begrudge us but asks us to recognize it and grab God’s hand to be led back to the truth of who we are.  We are invited to own up to the reality of being an echo of God and the vibrational presence of truth even when we are not aware of it.

My prayer for us is the willingness to own our echoing and choose to align it with the truth of love that is present in our hearts today.

If God has designed us to echo love and we are not aware of what we are echoing, how might God gently make you aware so that you can step back into the embrace of love that you are and echo it today?  Share in the comments.

God heals.  The unexpected beauty of a relationship with Our Creator brings with it a balance that defies understanding.  Love is the balm that calms the inflamed skin, the spray that neutralizes the toxic air, and the cleanser that brightens the surface.  God’s curing enters us at the core of our being and holds power in the never forgetting of who we are in our core.  The role we are asked to play in this experience of life is in of one who is willing to defer to a greater understanding when we forget who we are.  We are curing for ourselves and others when we openly work in cooperation with Our Creator.  We bring about the procurement of love by remembering and accepting the healing power of God into our hearts.  I thought for a long time that I was not worthy of the cure of love. I thought it would come only if I followed the rules, did what was expected, and didn’t rock the boat.  I almost killed my spirit trying it that way. It wasn’t until it did almost kill me that I became open to trying another way.  In my daily meditation dates with God, I am shown again and again the beauty existing in my heart that nothing I could do or that has been done to me can be erased.  The curing comes in the acceptance that nothing is greater than God.

My prayer for us is the courage to accept the curing of God by  remembering the power of the presence of God within our hearts today.

If God does not see anything but the purity of our hearts in which love always exists no matter what, how can God cure your mind today and allow it to be open to seeing the same?  Share in the comments.

God chooses.  God chose you.  We have the capability to make decisions in all areas of our lives.  The quintessential question is do we utilize our capability to choose love.  Love chooses us every day.  It may feel like at times as though we have no choice in the matter but that is an illusion.  In most cases it is simply that we do not like the choices. The decision to love is not always an easy one, the most obvious or our first inclination, but it is always available to us. Deciding on love requires us to be in the moment.  The decision may not look like what we imagine it to look like ahead of time.  I am grateful that God is always there with me and willing to guide me on the path of love especially when I can’t even see it.  I grab hold of God’s hand and ask to be shown the path of love so I can choose it in this moment.

My prayer for us is the courage to lean on God to help us in deciding to love in this moment.

If God decided we are love and is willing to continue to see us through the eyes of love, how can God assist you in deciding to love in the situations where you do not see it as an option today? Share in the comments.

My prayer for us is the openness to believing we can formulate creativity wherever love is present by remembering love is everywhere today.

If God has formulated us out of love, where in your life could you use a reminder that you have the capacity to formulate creativity from the love you are today?  Share in the comments.

God is beauty.  Stepping into who we are at our core calls on us to own all of the magnificence from which we were created.  We each have an exquisite natural beauty that exudes from our hearts and connects with the hearts of others.  We know we are in this lovely way of being when we are able to see the inherent beauty in others.  It is like our hearts have our eyes and they override the ones in our heads.  This exquisite beauty is more than a physical manifestation.  It is the kind experienced when we are in a place of peace and acceptance of ourselves and the world around us.  There are times when I feel this loveliness so definitively and it is beyond words.  The choice is always there whether to see through the eyes of my heart while seeing through the eyes in my head or just the limited view from the eyes in my head. It seems to be dependent upon the strength of my connection to God in the moment.  I do notice that after all these years of daily meditation dates with God my heart hurts when I am not able to use the eyes within it to see the loveliness I know is there.  It is in those times that God takes my hand and places it on my own heart and encourages me to breathe.

My prayer for us is the willingness to reach for the hand of God when the loveliness of existence seems to have escaped our vision.

If God has placed the eyes of love within our hearts ready to be chosen, how can God assist you in accessing those eyes and witnessing the loveliness in yourself and others today?  Share in the comments.

God is open.  We can witness the same world and understanding of love if we open our eyes.  We will not have far to search but it helpful to have the intention of seeking that which we want to see.  Our focus determines our reality.  We focus what we are seeking.  Being in the seeking does not mean that we have a blind eye to the reality of what is actually happening.  Seeking means being present to what is happening and finding that which we desire to see in the present moment.  If we only seek determined that we will not find what we are looking for right here or are certain that it must show up in a certain way we will miss it all together. “Sometimes the very thing we are looking for is the one thing we don’t see.” V.Williams

My prayer for us is the courage to seek love and be open to how it will show up so we can be present to it in this moment.

If God is open to sharing love in all forms and all fashions, how can God assist you in courageously seeking to see the love that you are and are experiencing today?  Share in the comments.

God embraces.  The level at which we are loved has no comparison.  The depth of our recognition of that love is entirely us.  Often we are in the midst of love and experiencing it but it doesn’t match a preconceived notion and so we think it is not present.  We have expectations of how love will show up and from whom.  What if we are experiencing it constantly and are just not aware of it? What if God is expressing affection towards us but it is in a way we do not look for and consequently don’t see?  In a world of definitions and categories we become so wedded to things matching our previous experience and understanding.  God by definition is something more than our understanding, why wouldn’t God’s affection for us also be beyond our understanding?  Perhaps the smile from the stranger, the laughter from our child, the car that let us in front of them on the freeway, the person who picked up the trash on the sidewalk, the breeze that gave us chills on our skin are all expressions of affection from God.

My prayer for us is the willingness to let our hearts see affection expressed by God in ways our eyes are closed to today.

If God is constantly expressing affection and expressions of love towards us, how might you be willing to open the eyes of your heart to it today?  Share in the comments.

God wants you. Do you want you?  The funny thing about love is it does not stay where it is not wanted.  True love does not cajole or compromise your free will.  It comes in when invited.  There are as many ideas about what love is as there are ideas.  We read stories as children about fairy tale love.  We go to churches and services and hear stories of love.  We read scriptures and are fascinated by tales of love.  We decide what love is and we want it.  The world we live in is about wanting, having, doing, and deserving.  God wants us to experience the love that we are at our core.  This often means letting go of the wanting, having, doing and deserving.  It means stepping into the being.  God wants us to experience love in its truest form and recognize it is not something to be earned.  God knows it is our being.

My prayer for us is the letting go of what we want and embracing of what God wants for our lives.

If God wants us to experience love in its truest form, what elements of wanting, having, doing or deserving are you willing to let go of today and just be God’s wanting?  Share in the comments.

God signals.  God sends love flowing through the universe so it operates as designed.  In its nature, its is free-flowing.  Love requires both giving and receiving to function.  In the world a high prize is given to the giving of love.  Obviously this is important and an outpouring of who we are as embodiments of love’s creation.  But if there is no reception of the love that we send it does not flow.  Love is to be freely given and freely received.  So much of what we conceive of love is not this kind of love.  What we experience is a slight distortion that inevitably happens as human beings strive to become their true nature.  It is kind of like we are in the stages of learning to walk.  We will fall and get back up and fall again and get back up again.  Learning to love is like that.  Yet when we look for love in the world we expect it to come in perfected form.  When it doesn’t and we are hurt we get confused and think it means not to give or receive love.  The love of God is the perfection of love and this is what we want to learn to be receptive of.

My prayer for us is the willingness to explore our understanding of love by hosting a reception in our heart today for the love of God.

If God is giving love all the time in our every breath, what is standing in the way of your reception of this love today?  Share in the comments.

God edges. Love is limitless. God surrounds us on all sides.  We can experience love no matter how far we take things.  No place or experience we have lays outside the boundaries of God because love is the boundary. Before I deepened my relationship with God I had some sense of certainty that as long as I was a good girl, nothing to terrible would happen.  I was not aware of what I had already lived through because my denial was so thick which it had to be at the time.  There were things in my life that were not optimal, but I was getting by okay.  I didn’t realize how disconnected I had become from my own sense of self and well-being.  Addiction is a convenient way to not be in reality.  When I made the decision to turn my life around and face the hard stuff I only had an inkling of my faith was tested. Reacquainting myself with feelings like anger and sadness I thought for certain would take me to the edge.  Being present in an uncomfortable and growing experience I just knew would take me back into denial.  Yet none of these things have.  Instead I have created a level of depth of living beyond my imagination.  I have had the opportunity to experience the power of love, joy, grace and know a beauty of heart beyond comprehension.  God has led me gently to a place where I have no certainty of what is around the corner.  The only certainty I have is that no matter what God has my back.  Whatever the experience, no matter how much it brings me to the brink of sanity or comfort, God will be there.  I have learned it is not about doing all the right things as though I need to earn God’s love.  It is about walking a path on the brink of life taking a chance that love will be there too.  So far, I am still standing, thank God.

My prayer for us is the courage to take our lives to the brink and experience the power of love in a profound way in our lives today.

If God stands ready at the brink to be the force of love that will not abandon us, how can God assist you in being willing to stand with the power of love residing in your heart today?  Share in the comments.