God is alive. We are alive in God. God-given life is perpetuated by growth and actualization. God created experience is bestowed upon all of us with each new breath. We think that our day has started and it is too late to begin again. This moment is life. Therefore this moment we begin. We have multiple opportunities to create and recreate our living experience when we are in the present. Our unconscious mind that runs most of our programming would have us think that if it did not already happen a certain way, it is not going to happen. That is its function. We can be grateful and acknowledge the power of our unconscious and also recognize its limitations when it comes to the present moment. If we did not have automatic programming we would be so consumed by the very basic life tasks like breathing, walking, and talking because we would have to concentrate on them. Being actuators means we can be grateful for what is working for us and recognize where we are called to show up and take action in our lives. Where are we being called to love? How are we being asked by our interactions to learn about love? Who would God have us be in this present moment? How might God see the challenging situation we are facing? My meditation date time with God is an opportunity for me to ask God how I might be in actuation today.
Be Of Actuation!
My prayer for us is the courage to be grateful for the things in our lives we do not need to think about so that we can be in actuation around bringing and growing in love today.
If God has given us a mind that takes care of the essentials, how might God be calling you to actuate love in your life today? Share in the comments.
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Be Of Focus!
God is One. The simplicity of a life lived in partnership with God is in simplicity of purpose. God is Love. Therefore everything involving God, involves love. Love is the means to the end. Love is the end and the beginning. Love is what we are growing in and towards. Love makes the world go round. Love is what we are here to remember. Love is what it’s all about. Our focus in life is on love. Where do we stand in relation to love at this moment? Where is God in our lives at this moment? How can I be loving in this situation? What about this experience is calling out to be loved? If we take the focus off of what we can get out of a situation and place it on what we can bring to it we are focusing on love. It is not always easy, but it is simple.
My prayer for us is the courage to set aside our other agendas and focus on love and growing love in our lives today.
If God’s way is love and we are from God, what are the things that cause you to focus elsewhere today? Share in the comments
Be Of Messaging!
God is the message. Each one of us is given the blessed opportunity to be the message of God to the world. This is our overarching purpose. This is why we are here. We are given everything we need to carry out our purpose. God wants us to be happy. All of life is designed to free us and allow us to take in the good. What stands in our way are the meanings about the experiences which by all appearances seemed to be the opposite of love. In God’s view the only thing that occurs in our lives is love and the opportunity to grow in love. Both engender happiness at our core. The presence of happiness lights us up. Being lit up allows us to shine love. Shinning love makes us the messengers of God.
My prayer for us is the courage to see and release the false understanding that we are anything but love so we can message God’s presence to the world today.
If you believe that God is love and you are the messenger of love, what can God do to help you become aware of your message for others today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Function!
God is functional! The beauty of the Great I AM is God’s presence in everything and everyone. God is extremely practical. God’s presence at all times means whatever is happening it can be used for the function of love. No matter what is happening, I can learn about love by being fully present in the moment. My mind scoffs at this idea on several levels. One argument it makes is for the impossibility of love truly being available in every situation and every being. Another argument of my mind is that God would even bother to be present in certain places especially the darker ones. Lastly, my mind is certain that it knows all the potential outcomes and the surprising nature of God is just beyond its perception. Thankfully God does not operate the way my mind does. I do not have to operate within the limitations of my mind either. My function can be the one God has for me. When I choose God’s idea of function for me, I grow in love from situations and circumstances where I thought for certain love did not exist. It is though it is God’s function to remind me there is no place where God who is love cannot and will not be
My prayer for us is the willingness to surrender our ideas of our purpose in this world as defined by our minds and open up to the functioning that God has for us.
If God is intensely practical, how could God guide you in being your best functional self today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Exchanging!
God is elusive! We seem to grasp the idea that we cannot hold all things at all times, in our minds, in our hands, nor in our perspective. We are not meant to be present to more than one moment at a time. The irony is that when we are fully present we are simultaneously aware of life at multiple levels. There is a heightened sense of being when we let go of our agenda of how things should be. When we let go of what has previously occurred and what we are concerned about for the future, we have a greater capacity to fully take in the now. We exchange a preset idea for a possibility. We exchange a control disposition for a trusting one. Who we are being in this moment is an exchange of priorities. Opting for the priorities of spirit versus priorities of the world. And while at the beginning it seems like we will miss out, it actually ends up being the very experience by which we can wholly appreciate all life has to offer.
My prayer for us is the willingness to exchange our thinking for God’s and fully experience the now moment we are in.
What focus on the past or future keeping you from the now are you willing to exchange for a fuller experience of life with God in this moment? Share in the comments.
Be Of Rootedness!
God is grounding! I know that when I feel like life is throwing me about and I am at the effect of life I feel unsafe and unsure. In those moments I need God to be more than just there for me. I need God to be the anchor of life and love. I need God to be the resounding voice of assurance that even though I am not feeling connected to the core of who I am, God only sees the connection. It is not about being saved from my experience, it is about knowing that I can weather the storm. It is about having faith in a power that is never swayed to see me differently because of my experiences. It is about trusting that God’s vision of my true self is grounded in the fundamentals and truth of love eternal. God knows it is only a matter of time before I remember the same. God is willing to be by my side as I make my way back to being rooted in the wholeness of myself and others.
My prayer for us is the courage to trust that God is rooted in the truth of who we are in love at all times even today.
If God is rooted in the truth of love and sees only our wholeness, who are we rooted in when we only see our brokenness? Share in the comments.
Be Of Oomph!
God is the oomph. The incredible experience that we seek in our heart to be connected to the Power of All That Is guides us in ways that we don’t even realize. God is calling to us through so many different avenues in our lives. We get stuck thinking God is nowhere to be found because God is not playing by our thinking. There is an underlying oomph of love in the universe that keeps the flow of life ever constant. God is this flow. You hear performers and athletes talk about being in the flow when they are on the field or stage. Artists finds themselves caught up in their work, almost swept away by a sense that a spirit is moving through them. Even in our every day we encounter moments when time is lost. This flow and movement of life is the strength of God’s power that sweeps us away in moments that never seem to end. These are accessible to us any time we want. The oomph of life moves through us all the time.
My prayer for us is the willingness to stop and connect with the oomph of life that is happening for each of us multiple times each day.
If God’s powerful flow of life is with you at all times, how would you want to be present with your oomph today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Readiness!
God is here. The beauty of the majesty of God is in God’s willingness to meet us where we are. God does not require us to attain a certain spiritual level or becomes some sort of guru before God will work with us. God senses our willingness to work in cooperation with God. We are the ones who place specific demands or demonstrations of power before we think God wants anything to do with us. Thankfully God does not see things as we do. Take a cursory look at the characters in any sacred scripture from various religions and you will see that those who are in service to whatever God they write about are not the most outstanding people. They are usually the people who show up. God wants us ready to go today. God can use where we are and who we are if we are ready to be used for the growth of love. It only requires a willingness and an openness to the idea that where we are is enough. The key for us is not placing our judgment of ourselves ahead of our readiness.
My prayer for us is the courage to step up in our readiness and show God through it that we want to grow in love today.
If God is ready for you today exactly as you are, how can you be ready for God exactly as God is today? Share in the comments.
Be Of Endurance!
God is. Whatever happens in life. One thing can be counted upon above all else-God is. The being of love from which we all stem will never cease to be. We can do all kinds of things and live through multiple experiences and none of those will undo the Beingness of Being. As an adult woman incest survivor the pieces that I grapple with today are the leftover stories that I took on to save my sanity as a child. Stories of confusion and shame, darkness and a needing to hide. They show up in the most random of places these days. Sometimes coming face to face with them feels like I am being yanked back in time and in the throes of my past experience. Everyone has these kind of experiences but maybe a different flavor. We all have some unhealed wounds from our childhood that eventually call out to the light. I find it reassuring when I hit one of these bumps to know that the Great Light stays lit even when I think I have fallen into darkness. All I need to do is reach out for God’s hand and get my heart-light relit so I can endure through to the remembrance of myself as also a being of light and love.
My prayer for us is the courage to find ways to continue to endure no matter the outside circumstances or internal strifes by reaching out to the Light that never goes out.
If God’s light is always lit, what can you do today to connect with that light so that you might endure and be able to shine your light from within you again? Share in the comments.
Be Of Creation!
God is the Creator of all. We are who God created us to be. We are not the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. Nothing we say or do can undo what God has created. The love within you has not disappeared. The joy in you has not been taken away. The peace in you is not hiding. When we measure who we are by the world we begin to buy into ideas that are not of God. You would not look at a flower that has wilted and declare that it messed up. You would acknowledge that it must be moving through a cycle of creation. The same goes for us. We have not failed as human beings because we make mistakes. We are learning. Learning to remember the love from which we were created. Learning to connect with the Creator who fashioned us out of love for love. Releasing the stories that we have piled on top of our hearts is a process. Each day, each breath is an opportunity to accept the reality of who we are according to God’s creation.
My prayer for us is the openness to acknowledge that God created us and we are forever at our core God’s creation and nothing else.
If you were to accept that you are a creation of God, what might you be able to view differently about yourself today? Share in the comments.
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