dailydatewithgod

God calls upon us with each breath to a meditation of our full existence.  When we breathe, we say yet to life and invite in the possibilities for what can occur in that time until the next breath.  Sounds like a lot for what is only seconds in duration.  Life is lived in moments and seconds.  We do not have years or decades, it only appears that way.  This moment is all there is.  Our breath is an invitation to be present to the moment we are in.  Our breaths become a meditation on the preciousness of life.

My prayer for us today is the courage to notice one of our calls to be mindful of the gift of our lives through our breath today.

If you could choose how many times today to be aware of God’s gift of life to you, how many breaths would you choose?  Share in the comments.

God is always with us on this journey, even when we do not feel God. Faith means living in the unknown. Our hearts have the capacity of living in the unknown.  If we are open to letting go of surviving in our mind long enough to allow our heart to speak.  We can experience the poetry and rhythm of trust in God in the living vibration of our heart.  God invites us as we grow and mature into a relationship from the heart.  I was never particularly fond of poetry because I felt as though I had to think to hard to understand it.  But I have always loved music.  Music is the rhythm of the poetry that my heart beats to. I have learned that is about connecting to the vibration of the experience of being alive.  That  Perhaps it is about connecting to the rhythm of love either through the words or their vibration, whichever allows us to be more present in the space of our hearts.

My prayer for us is the courage to step outside of heads and enter into the space of faith by being with the vibration of love today.

If the rhythm of love is already beating in your heart, is it the vibration of the music or poetry of your life that draws you more into faith today?  Share in the comments.

God has altered thinking. Being in relationship with God means that we are continually offered an alternative to our limited view of life.  There is a reason why so many significant religious and spiritual rituals take place over a table often referred to as an altar.  A table is where a meal is enjoyed.  A meal is composed of elements that were wholly offered up and have been altered through the process of mixing, heating, and or seasoning.  We do the same with our lives.  We present to God ourselves at the altar of our life.  God invites us to see it differently.  God invites us to enjoy the mixture of our experiences.  God invites us to be warmed by the heated elements of our lives that created us anew.  God invites us to savor the experiences that have seasoned us.  God can make a feast of love out of whatever we offer up.  God shows us that what is placed on the altar can be altered if we are open to seeing as God sees.

My prayer for us is the courage to accept God’s invitation to the table of our lives and savor the altered perspective of who we have become.

If God can alter your thinking to view the experiences of your life that you have seasoned as something to savor instead of throw away, what would you present to God to be altered today?  Share in the comments.

God lights all the world through the power of love.  Our existence is an expression of the love of God. We do not have to do anything to make this happen.  If ever there is a question in our minds of our worthiness we must realize we are asking the wrong question.  We are worthy of being an expression of love because we were created.  The question is whether or not we are embracing our role as an expression of God.  Am I being the channel of God’s love for myself and others?   Have I let go of my agenda for the situation I am walking into right now and agreed to allow God to work through me?  In the spiritual path of the 12 steps there is a description of how to start one’s day that includes setting out our plans for the day in the morning and asking God to show us where we might be useful.  It is not about not having plans or ideas of how we want things to go but not being attached to them.  There is a trust that as an expression of God, God is with us every moment, every step of the day.  Whatever we encounter, even when it doesn’t go our way, we can trust in our ultimate purpose being fulfilled.

My prayer for us is the courage to walk in the knowledge of ourselves as an expression of love in every situation and interaction today.

If being an expression of love means that no matter what happens today you can be successful, how would you like God to show you what it means to be that expression in your own heart?  Share in the comments.

In living the life that God has designed for us we are called upon to stretch outside of what we think we know.  We cannot live a life of God’s design by simply our own being.  Understanding the reality of our grounding in God means that we can embrace the experience of putting ourselves out there in life.  Life is meant to be lived.  We are encouraged to take risks in love so that we may become even more aware of the presence of love in and through us.  If we sit around and wait to be handed evidence we will not find it.  It is found in the living of it.  This means different things for different people as we do not have all of the same experiences.  What we do have is the same process of ;earning in love.  It may seem daunting at first, especially if we have been hurt (which we all have) but God gives us the courage to give love a chance one more time just for today.

My prayer for us is the courage to step into our lives with God’s vision of our growth in love no matter what we experience today so that we can know ourselves and God more intimately.

If God is with you and through you at every moment and can turn whatever happens in your life into a love-learning process, what do you have to fear today?  Share in the comments.

God looks upon his creation with love beyond our understanding.  We are encouraged to trust our Creator in remembering the power and the strength from which we were created.  When we find ourselves feeling weak and unworthy it is because we have forgotten who we are.  God is ready and willing to remind us.  The question is whether or not we are wedded to the idea of who we are that we created or if we are open to remembering God’s truth of who we are.  The beauty of God is in the process of being willing to let go of a story of who we are. The process allows for the very experience of remembrance. It does not matter how long we have lived in the untruth of who we are, if we are willing to trust that God’ story is the true one and embrace it, it can become our reality.  As my dates continue with God, I am gently shown where my stories are still at play. God then asks if I am willing and ready to trust in God’s truth of who I am or continue with the fairy tale.  Each time I let go of the tall tale and embrace the truth I have found it to be a place of great love and abundance and more wonderful than any fairy tale could ever be.

My prayer for us is the courage to recognize our fairy tales and ask God for the strength to trust in God’s version of who we are today.

If God’s understanding of who you are at your core is better than any fairy tale that you have created, what do you need from God to be willing to trust in the story of your truth today?  Share in the comments.

God awakens within you.  Each moment we take a breath, the inspiring elements of life itself begin their cycle again.  How powerful an opportunity we are given in life when we think about how many times we can take a new breath.  This simple act of renewing life inside of us allows us to spread fresh energy through our heart which spreads it to the rest of our bodies.  It wakes us up, opens our eyes, and engages our spirit.  We are the messenger of the love of God every time we take in a new breath. Without saying anything the fact that we are alive means that God lives too.    God lives in and through us. Then if we take that breath of life and use it to fuel a life of love we become exponentially more powerful.

My prayer for us is the time to reflect upon the magnitude of the gift of our breath as evidence of the power that resides in and through us this day.

If taking in your next breath was evidence to you of the power of God present in your whole being, what would you choose to do with that evidence today?  Share in the comments.

God is recognizable.  When we connect with All That Is,  presence is revealed to us in all areas of our lives.  It is as though a world in black and white gets infused with color. God wants us to live in the purples and greens, dance with the pinks, and sing with the reds.  We sometimes see coloring as a childhood activity literally and figuratively.  We seek it as a sign of maturity that we are able to distinguish the black and the white with great efficiency.  Then there is the grey. The opposite of black and white is often portrayed as grey but maybe that is because we haven’t been willing to witness all the color variations.  Just the fact that we label it all as either/or tells us that we are still in the black or white frame of mind.  God invites us to be witnesses and experimenters in all the colors, the greys, and the blacks and whites.  Every color and shade is a part of our full living experience if we want it to be.  God can used all things for good.

My prayer for us is the courage to open our eyes and witness all the colors of life and ask God how we can use them to create our life’s experience.

If it did not matter if you colored outside or inside the lines, what colors would you use to walk through your day today? Share in the comments.

God is Light!  God presence overcomes darkness by the very being of God.  We then as creations of God are equipped to do the same.  In order to be in alignment with light, we are called to draw closer to God.  The very heart of our being wants nothing more but when our world gets clouded over in darkness, we forget to attach to the luminescent experience and knowing of God.  Each breath we have the opportunity to envision the taking in of the light.  Each day we can set our intention to reignite the light within us by aligning with God.  In alignment who we are being is the luminescent presence of God for ourselves and others.

My prayer for us is the gift of remembrance of our luminating presence when we choose to tap into the light of God within ourselves.

What area of darkness do you need God’s light on in your life today so that you may embrace your own luminescence?  Share in the comments.

God is ready to make all things new.  God is open to taking what we show up with and showing us how to fashion love from it.  This is how I know that God is beyond my understanding.  How can my shame and despair be fashioned into love?  How can my fear and envy breed anything but a closed heart?  How is it possible that the worst kind of betrayal become the bedrock of love and forgiveness?  When I look at how my life started out, it is a complete miracle that I am a woman who chooses consciousness.  God has given me the gift of experiencing the power of overcoming circumstances because I was willing to see it differently.  God is gentle when I am demanding and angry.  God is patient when I am rash and ready to bolt.  God is able to show me how to be day by day, step by step, breath by breath if I am open and willing. God is not overcome by human circumstance or human thinking.  Of one thing I am certain, today is a day that I choose to be overcome by God alone.

My prayer for us is the courage to be willing to overcome our circumstances or ideas that lead us to believe that God will also be overcome by them.

If there is nothing that God cannot overcome, then what will you turn to God to show you how to overcome?  Share in the comments.