dailydatewithgod

God is encompassing! We have been created from the arms of love.  It is no mistake that our arms extend out from the line of our hearts.  Encircling ourselves and others with our love is the shape of our bodies.  It is as designed.  We can choose to take on this role of encircling love when we open our arms with our hearts.  When I think it is up to me to do this on my own, I become weighted down and my shoulders curve forward protecting my heart.  My mind tells me I have been hurt too many times by an open heart.  Or I try to take on the responsibility of what other people do with the love that I offer.  This is not what God has in mind.  When I remember that God is within the heart that I offer to encircle all with love, I am able to stand tall and be present.  With this strength of heart I can breathe, I can open my arms, and I can create a circling of love that begins but does not end with me.  It is an offering of love freely given.  Then my heart is open to receive more from God.

My prayer for us is the courage to be encircling with our love by relying on God to provide the strength with which to share all that we are.

If God provides us with the love and our hearts are the vessel through which it moves, how can God remind you that encircling yourself and others with your love is being your best self today?  Share in the comments.

God is Alive.  The movement of the breath and depth of life consistently unveils God’s presence in our lives.  When we engage in an active relationship with the Great Creator we honor the depth of our very being.  The activity of relationship allows us to continually draw out the love within our hearts. Sometimes the layers of fear or circumstance have created a casing over our hearts.   The coverage of our hearts was our best thinking due to circumstances.  The gift of relationship with God is the courage to actively be in the moment we are in.  Little by little we reignite the courage to let go of the past and be one with our Creator right now.  The more time we are active in this moment with God in whatever form that is, the greater the depth of our capacity to actively love all elements of our lives.  I have spent many years of my life casting protection around my heart through fear, physical weight, a sugar addiction, and stinking thinking.  Only when I found it no longer worked was I willing to seek another path.  This path led me to my daily prayer and meditation dates with God.  Day by day God showed me how to actively engage my heart from within so I could let go of the outer coating or rather allow God to remove it.

My prayer for us today is the courage to engage the active elements of love in our hearts no matter how buried they are and allow God to remind us who we are within and outside of ourselves.

If God has placed within us an active heart meant for love greater than we can imagine, how can God assist you in actively letting go of one of the layers of protection that no longer works for you today?  Share in the comments.

God works.  No matter what seems to happen in our lives, love keeps working.  God has created an effective universe.  When we recognize that nothing we could every say, do, or experience can undo the Almighty there is breathing room.  My daily meditation dates with God have taught me to look at life through the lens of effectiveness.  Is what I am doing or being working for me, for others, for the greater good?  It is less of a good versus bad comparison and more of an inquiry into whether I am able to be at my best in any given situation.  If I am able to bring love to a situation it is effective.  Different situations call for different energies of love.  No one including me is a machine.  Every day, every breath, is an opportunity to explore my effectiveness in being the love I am in the moment.  This will look different at each moment.  Sometimes there are similarities but it doesn’t even matter.  All that matters is the moment I am in.

My prayer for us is the courage to ask God for help in seeing our lives through the lens of effectiveness of being love in the moment we are in.

If God has set things up so we can live as the love of which we were designed, how can God assist you in remembering how effectively you can bring love to the moments you are in today?  Share in the comments.

God is joyous.  The heavens celebrated when you were born.  A new adventure was about to begin.  More love became present in the world in you and through you at this moment of joy. We can stop for a moment and really take in that we are a gift to the world.  We can revel in it because God created us as this gift and our only job is to make use of it.  It can be difficult to imagine what there is to revel in and be joyous about when we spend all our time focusing on what is wrong about us and our lives.  This is where God is ready to step in and help us with a change in perspective.  I create this opportunity on my meditation date with God and as often as needed through the day by pausing, taking a breath, touching my heart and use my other hand to reach for God’s.

My prayer for us is the courage to revel God’s wisdom of creating us as evidence of the power of love in this world.

If God knows joy in your presence, how can God assist you in an attitude of revelry for your life today?  Share in the comments.

God cares.  In our day-to-day living we desire to be connected to the One who created us in love.  We find ourselves drawn to moments of love and caring expressed in a million different ways.  We cannot deny that the touches upon our heart when we witness the genuine care of one being to another.  How much greater is the care of God who designed the place in our hearts that recognizes the power of caring?  In our breath we feel the care of a new moment in our cells.  In our smiles we remember the love that travels from our hearts to our faces.  In our laughter we hear the beat of our hearts in our voices.  In the wind we hear the whispers of love from an eternal source that is never-ceasing.  This is the evidence of God’s caring that I am able to see especially after I have spent my meditation date time with God being reminded of who I am.

My prayer for us is the courage to open our eyes to the evidence of God’s care for us in our lives today.

If God cares for us in small ways every moment of our lives, how can God assist you in developing a caring focus for a moment of your life this day?  Share in the comments.

God is grateful.  We were created from a space of seeing life as a treasure.  We live in a world that has lost its vision.  It can be difficult to be mindful of what there is to be thankful for when we are already focusing on the next thing.  Gratitude does not come easily from a mindset of not enough.  The quickest jump in mindset to joy is from gratitude.  God is grateful for all God’s creations.  There is nothing God has created that is not seen as a treasure.  If we want to embrace the vision of God we can start with looking at what in our lives we are thankful for.  A key to my shift in perception from one moment to the next is found easier when I focus on what in my life I am thankful for.

My prayer for us is the willingness to embrace God’s perception of gratitude by looking at what we have to be thankful for today.

If God is grateful for you, what can you be thankful for in your life today?  Share in the comments.

God is brightness!  Embodying the true nature with which we are equipped means not pretending we are less than we are. We are meant to shine as children of God because we are the manifestation of God.   We are the evidence the world longs for when it loses sight of love.  We are the beacons of light that are meant to sparkle through the darkness.  We need each other to do this.  It is not about not playing small or think we are better than anyone else.  It is the recognition and remembrance of our true nature as part of the web of creation which is love.  It is stepping into to sparkle up the night sky because we are the stars that inhabit it.  It is about shinning the message of love when the travelers on the path have lost their way. Some days we need to see the sparkle in others.  Other days we get to be the sparkle for others.

My prayer for us is the courage to sparkle today because we were created in the image and likeness of the Light of Love.

If God is prepared to bring light to the darkness of our lives, how can you connect with the sparkle of love that God has placed in the darkened parts of your heart today?  Share in the comments.

God is the bright shining light within us.  The love that we are penetrates our very soul and emanates from our hearts. We are the gleaming presence of love in the world.  It gets clouded over by our thinking that tells us this is not possible.  We think that if we do not feel like a loving presence or a gleam of light that it must not be who we are.  If we remember that it is not our thoughts about our feelings but acceptance of our feelings that is important we can head in the right direction.  We cannot accept the gleam of light if we do not believe that it exists.  We start with the recognition that our eyes are a little clouded over and we are not perceiving correctly.  Then we ask God for the courage and the power to be open to the gleams of light present, no matter how small they are.  The power of light is such that when we focus on it in the smallest presence it grows larger and larger.  These gleams of light are our ticket to reconnect the great light of love that is within us and all around us.

My prayer for us is the courage to ask God to help us be witnesses to the gleaming lights within and around us today.

If God has placed the Great Light of Love in our hearts, what gleams of light might you be willing to witness in your own life today?  Share in the comments.

My prayer for us is the courage to take God up on a meditation date and live for a few moments from the viewpoint of our hearts today.

If God already placed within our hearts the capacity to view all points as connected to love, what is standing in the way of closing your eyes and breathing into your heart for just a moment today?  Share in the comments.

God is correct.  In relationship with God we begin to see rightly. Our vision adjusts to having again the eyes of love.  It is not that we didn’t have eyes love before a relationship with God.  It’s not even that we have never not been in relationship with God. It is that now it is a conscious decision.  Relationship with God is a decision.  Day by day, sometimes moment by moment, we get to choose to align ourselves with the thinking of God or not.  God sees things as they truly are.  God’s sight correction is one that speaks to our hearts.  I need this correction when I am distraught and frustrated about how things are not the way I expect them to be.  When I am fighting reality, I look to my relationship with God to explain to my heart which is hurting from my mind’s interpretation of things.  When I get that my erred way of thinking is causing the pain, I am willing to surrender to another way.  Sometimes this takes a while and I am grateful that God is not only patient but compassionate.

My prayer for us is the recognition that when we decide we no longer want to suffer due to our thinking, God is ready to provide the needed correction which leads us to peace.

If God’s correct thinking is available to us at any time we decide to let go of our own, what do you think is keeping you from seeking correction today?  Share in the comments.